Lynda Weeden:  

About 32 years ago, I walked out of THS with a diploma on my way to enlist in the Marine Corps. Whatever made me think THAT was a bright idea is beyond me ... but when I got there, I found out just how wrong I was. Thankfully, they didn't like me any more than I liked them and boot camp ended quickly for me. I came home and got really involved with a guy from Lakeside. My Mom and my two sisters were moving to New Jersey since Mom was finally getting married to that man that kept her out of town all the time. We didn't particularly like him, but she did and all the jetting back and forth to NJ sure did make for some good party opps while she was gone. I didn't think NJ was such a grand idea, so I moved in with Mr. Lakeside, and started a family. We got married in January of 1979 and my first son, Nick, was born the following May. Second son, Ben, followed in August of 1980. In 1983, Mr. Lakeside and I had had about enough of each other and we split. Shortly thereafter, I found I was pregnant yet again, and little Leisa was born in early May of 1984 in, of all places, NJ ... ran right home to Momma. Lots of single mom stuff happened over the ensuing years, including a move to Jacksonville when Mom's marriage to Mr. NJ split up in 1985. She moved close to her Mom .. funny how we girls do that. I got married again in the early 90s to a Jacksonville guy who died of cancer a couple of years later. By 1994, I decided a move to Atlanta was in the...Expand for more