Marcella Johnson:  

In school I was easily missed and was small enough for people to stuff me into my locker.. which DID happen! Shy, shy, and more shy.... but could run fast enough to out distance anyone chasing me. Loved reading and would read anything out loud to anyone who would sit and listen to me! LOL. As I grew up I realized that I could actually TALK to people, and they'd talk back.. wonders of wonders! A favorite pass time was to memorize songs no one had every heard of and sing them to people...The Little Blue Man, The Telephone man, 16 little red noses and a horses sweat, (and YES there is actually a song out by that name!) amoung others. Moved from ILLINOIS TO TENNESSEE when I met my husband, where I found my calling.... ran a shelter from my home for 15 years. Learned to groom and clip the strays, had them fixed, and put them up for adoption. Took on local goverment and harrassed them until decent shelters were built.. (think they built the Coffee County shelter JUST to get me out of their meeting... only took 3 years of going to every ...EVERY meeting they ever had!) Still married to the same man after 40 years.. went through my HATE years, of course... but made it through with everything going great now! BUT there was a time I walked up to him told him I hated HIM, TENNESSE, his whole family, and especially his MAMA!!! BUT.. I WASN'T going to divorce him so he could go mess up someone elses life.. that I was going to give him 5 years of crap and after that would decide whether I was going to free him to ever be happy!! "Sigh" but now... the man adores me and I him... I come home and he not only has supper waiting.. he waits on me hand and foot... even does dishes.. AND Laundry!!!.. and gives ME his whole paycheck!!!! I, in return, hide my money through out my purse and once a week he gets to go through and try to find it. Kinda like a treasure hunt... he hates it when I go back through and find a couple of hundred he missed! At age 36 had ...Expand for more