Patricia Nolen:  

40 years in a crack of the nut shell: I made a big mistake with my last high school boyfriend due to my rebellious streak. He was smart, responsible, handsome and just didn't want me to smoke.... So then I did go to Chapman College for awhile and was in a "scandalous" play a-la Laugh-in, which made the news (wearing flowers painted on flesh colored tights) and then to Saddleback. The University of Seville, Spain was the most unique college experience ('70-'71). I was voted Miss Foreign Student and danced with the president of the university. I came back and finished at the University of California at Fullerton. I was married to the worse guy I ever brought home (my mother said). We had 3 boys right away. Nevertheless I worked my way up to the executive level with Clinique Cosmetics working for them for 6 years before department store management. After my divorce in 1993 I was offered a job, in 1994, that I couldn't refuse in Tennessee. It was $10,000.00 more than I was making in Victorville, CA and I have relatives here. Here I stayed and met I lot of undesirable bubbas but finally met another responsible, caring type man in 1995. For a...Expand for more