Raymond Holmes, Jr.:  

Life My name is Raymond Reinhold Holmes, Jr., son of Raymond Reinhold Holmes and Judy Holmes-Martinos. I was born on March 19, 1982 and started growing up in Pendel, PA (in Bucks County). I have one sister, Naomi, who is two years younger than me. I lived in several places growing up...my parents always moved around a lot. First because we didn't have any money, and then because my Mom joined the Military until 1998. I grew up in Pennsylvania, Florida, Virginia, Washington State, Texas, and then back to Virginia, where I currently reside. Unfortunately, the thing which I suffered from the most because of moving around a lot is I never really learned how to make friends or even get to know and communicate with people. That started to change only a few years ago. However, the friends which I did make along the way are really important to me and I hope to one day find them again and do something to be a blessing to them because they were a blessing to me. Currently, I am twenty-five years old, single, and live in an apartment with two roommates. I'm also currently looking for my next job. I started working when I was eighteen at Wal-Mart in El Paso, TX. That job wasn't really fun at all, and it only lasted me six months. In fact, none of my jobs have really been that fun, and haven't lasted too long. My longest job was Target, and I was there for about two and a half years. See, I never graduated from high school (I did get a GED), and I didn't go to college. To be honest with you, my life has really been unstable; as a child, as a teenager, and now as an adult. Nothing ever really stays the same, and there's always one big dissaster after another. I really wish that would change. One of the things I'm doing to help my life change for...Expand for more