Patricia Friedman:  

Life My Life has been a roller coaster ride. After graduating high school, I went to the University of California at Berkeley where I majored in business. This was not the major for me so after two years I took a leave of absence and headed home to San Jose where I met my boyfriend. We dated for 10 years and finally got married in Kauai, Hawaii. A year later we had our daughter. After we celebrated her first birthday, he died. So there I was left alone with a one year old daughter. I decided to go back to U.C. Berkeley and finish my degree. In preparation for CAL I went to Evergreen Valley college and took some courses then I reapplied to CAL and got back in. I worked two jobs on campus and went to school full time during the day. It was a struggle balancing two jobs, a daughter and classes. It took me seven years but I finally graduated in 2000 with a degree in Mass Communications. While I was at CAL, I also bought a house which I am now renting out. I worked a couple of years at various television stations in Sacrame...Expand for more