Robert Sandlin:  

I have a daughter, Nicole, who lives in Seattle, Washington. Me, well after 15 years of living in and around Atlanta, I married Mandy in 1989, a girl I met in Macon and Atlanta, and we moved to a beautiful beachfront in the Caribbean, where I managed the Womens division in the Caribbean for JCPenney and then managed JCPenney's largest store in the World in San Juan, Puerto Rico, till 1994. While in the Caribbean, we had our son, Robert Jr. in May of 1992, he has dual citizenship, and has more frequent flyer miles than me already. He loves to travel. We miss living in the Caribbean, but ask to return back to the states when we found out my mother was terminally ill, I returned in time to spend the last 3 months with my Mother before she died. In January of 1994, the Company moved me to the states, as store manager, it is great to be back in the states. We travel every chance we get, we love it, our family has a place in the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina in Maggie Valley, where we all meet, we love the mountains, where we visit all year. We love to travel out west every chance we get, I love to snow ski! Of all the places we lived and visited, North Carolina will always be home, we visit my dad in Fayetteville often. We both miss living in the sun in the Caribbean, I miss the sailing, and although Mandy was from Georgia, we both miss the friends of Fayetteville that I grew up with. My wife and I are also expecting a new baby on March 28, 2002, we think it's terrific and can't wait. Mandy found out she had breast cancer in December 2002, after much treatment, she passed away on Labor Day weekend 2005, September 4th, she was the sweetest girl in the world, terrible to pass away so young and miss seeing your children grow up. I raised my two boys, Will age 3 and Robert age 13 and enjoyed a lot of things as being a single parent, things most dads might miss, but we made it, both are doing well now. After my wife Mandy passed away on September 4, 2005, my dad passed away soon after on July 29, 2006 and a few months later, Edmond, my brother passed away on March 22, 2007 with cancer, I always remember him as the best "Big Brother always". My son, Robert Jr., &, Will , and myself all miss her greatly and my brother and Dad, but we did things, I was always there for my boys competitions and we enjoyed life. My Daughter is running "Special Fund Raisers" for a group of Hospitals in Seattle, and doing wonderful work and blessed me with great grandkids. My son, Robert Jr., went on to become a 4 time "All American" in track and field, ranked 3rd in the United States...Expand for more