Linda Hendrickson:  

Funny! The answer to the question, What would surprise you all about me, may not surprise you at all. For me, I think I was the last person to really know me at all. I will tell you,... that that ,has probably been my biggest accomplishment since leaving high school. Finally, I can say I know who Linda is! :-) How do you tell your story from the past 40 years? Do I write what I want you all to think? I could make up stuff, or only include the really great things that I have accomplished in my life, or the wonderful things that have happened to me, because in reality there have been many of those! Or, do I only share the mistakes that I have made, and the bad things that have happened to me and my family in my life, because in reality, there have been many of those too! I guess to tell you how I am today would be the best thing to share. It is becaues of all those things that have happened in my life, both good and bad, that I am here today on this Classmates.com, 40 years older, and hopefully alot wiser than when I was last among you all. .....I will log on and continue more later. One thing that will be very telling, is to tell you that I have only been on a computer for the last 2 months. That, in itself, says alot........ L I have been married to Ron.... in October it will be 29 years. We have 2 daughters, and I had 2 daughters from a previous marriage that lasted from 1971-1977. I now have 4 grandchildren. This part is very hard for me to say, but I lost a grand-daughter, the beautiful little girl, ^Kayla^, that's on my lap in the picture. She was diagnosed with neuroblastoma (cancer) stage 4, two days before Christmas 2006, and battled it like a true warrior,at Children's Hospital in Denver. She lost her battle at 15 months this past December 2nd. It is still so fresh, and painful. I will tell you, that I have found you can get through anything with faith, and the 15 months we had with her were a real gift and life a...Expand for more