Rene' Hawes:  

Life My life story is a true Cinderella Story. My childhood would make a good movie: tragic, full of drama, danger, blah, blah, blah. I worked full time for room and board while finishing high school so my social life during high school was none exsistant. I didn't know and couldn't afford to care whether all the hours I worked were "legal", I was just thrilled to be in the best situation so far in my life. I started taking classes at Delta College before graduating from high school and was accepted in Delta's Nursing Program. Had I been a wiser and more mature young woman I would have continued to make good choices but in love and life I made some naive and poor choices. After thinking life could only be better than my childhood . . . . I found out that I had more tragedy and drama ahead but it took me some years before I realized I was responsible by my actions, choices and thoughts, (or lack thereof). I finally did become a nurse and loved my profession. I worked mainly in E.R. then I.C.U. then specialized in Pysch. then Ob/Gyn then transplants: kidney, hearts, and liver. I excelled in nursing where I had failed in giving my three children the family I had always dreamed of. Just when I thought my life was on an upward swing - I was diagnosised with acute Hepatitis B and told I had a few months to live. My teenage children were devasted as they watched me loose my grip on life. They found a book on "Nutritional Healing" and begged me to swollow the nutrients that they would buy at "Mother's Mkt", our local health food store. I gagged on the beet juice, aleVera juice, milk thistle, etc. but in three weeks I was standing and walking again for the first time in three months. It took much longer to return to work full time but it changed my life, my direction, my energy, my focus. I became very involved in many different forms of holitic medicine - studing many hours and evetually opening up a clinic doing massage and Jin Shin Do Acupressure. I met wonderful people, had great personal growth and after 10 years as a single mother, decided that I was now ready to find a significant other and knew what I wanted from this person and from life. I also realized all I had to offer. That brought a complete close to the "sad part of my Cinderella story" portion of my life. I met my prince charming 16 years ago. I retired from nursing (which wasn't easy as I loved it so), sold my business (which was very easy) and have had one adventure after another. We travel, build, design, decorate, boat, snorkle, dive, swim, boat, kayak, hike, garden, landscape, entertain family and friends, grandparent, love books, music, singing and I scrapbook, paint, sew, bake, cook, love the internet, EBay, Amazon.com, while Ken loves tennis, cars, boats, and his workshop. We have been blessed with two grandchildren that we homeschooled, raised and several others that we have shared our home with and finaced thru college. These young people have enriched our lives in unbelievable ways. We are blessed with a loving, close family, our health and more riches than I ever imagined I could ever experience. Life has been and is very rich and rewarding. I can't even imagine that I am the same person as the one that graduated from Franklin High. I am self confident, out spoken, happy, massive energy, and not the timid, shy, frightened, niave 17 year old graduate that once lived in this skin. I am looking forward to re-uniting with the few friends and acquaintances I had at Franklen High School. School I moved from the little town of Gridley, CA to Stockton at 15 years old and had been dating a boy (man) 5 years older than myself who was in the AirForce. It was Ronnie Kruzie that found my real mother for me at 15 years old and let her know what a terrible situation she had left me in - (abandonned me at a few months old and never returned). Ron and I have a special bond from when we first met and still talk and share our history together. He helped my mother regain custody of me and that is why I moved from Gridley to Stockton. Unfortunately, my mother and step dad had a very violent relationship and I did not fit in so I immediately found work and moved out. Ron had helped me thru some very tragic years in Gridley and has always been there for me had I needed help. Ron was fun, playful, truely concerned, but didn't share my fundementalist Christian beliefs at the time and he was a playboy that just was not the "marrying type". History has proven that to be true. I had a brief crush on Tom Anton from my church and Stagg high - but we were both too practical for to let our education be swept away with romance at such a young age. Actually, it was he that was so self controled . . . . I think I was "wishing" for some "swept away romance". I would love to know if he became a Dr. as planned. He also had a sweet younger brother, Tim Anton. Hopefully I will be able to locate the two of them and hope both have a fulfilled life. Most of my teachers were an inspiration to me. I was living on my own, self supporting and verily making ends meet because Mrs. Waurshauer paid me $1/day for 8 hours work a day (I was her maid)plus a pot pie for dinner. I slept in what was the old bar area - verily room for a single bed but it had a balcony that I would fantasize from - - - singing the Sound of Music and other musicals that I had learned in choir but did not have the grand soprano voice for. I lived in her home on Oxford C...Expand for more