Melissa Petroske:
CLASS OF 1999
Prescott High SchoolClass of 1999
Prescott, WI
Etiwanda High SchoolClass of 1999
Etiwanda, CA
Alta Loma High SchoolClass of 1999
Rancho cucamonga, CA
Melissa's Story
Melissa's schools include Prescott High School, Alta Loma High School, Etiwanda High School.
Music Melissa likes includes We Are Sublime, Hyland, Stray Cats. Books Melissa likes include The Old Farmers Almanac, The Bible, William Shakespeare. Movies Melissa likes include Dumb and Dumber, Comedy, Grumpy Old Men. TV shows Melissa likes include Doomsday Preppers, National Geographic Channel, DOG The Bounty Hunter on A&E.
One of Melissa's favorite quotes is:"Anything from The Wonder Years :)
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians
The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights..."Oleander time," she said. "Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind." ... I sat next to her, and we stared out at the city that hummed and glittered like a computer chip deep in some unknowable machine, holding its secret like a poker hand... Down below us in the streets of Hollywood, sirens whined and sawed along my nerves. In the Santa Anas, eucalyptus trees burst into flames like giant candles, oilfat chaparral hills...Expand for more
ides went up in a rush, flushing starved coyotes and deer down onto Franklin Avenue. She lifted her face to the singed moon, bathing in its glowering beams. "Raven's-eye moon." "Ritz cracker moon," I murmured, my head on her knee. She softly stroked my hair. "It's a traitor's moon." - White Oleander, J.F.
"You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true. "
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to FAMILY. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time...".
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