Rufina Pena:  

Hello, I left the area (Palmdale) in 1970 and moved to Santa Barbara to live with my oldest brother and his wife. A couple of months after that I was on my own and actually graduated from Dos Pueblos in Goleta, a suburb of Santa Barbara. I married Carl Robison and had a wonderful son (the biggest gift in my life). We both lived in Oregon for about a year and then back to Littlerock, CA for a few years, then to Eastern Texas then back to CA. In the early 1980s my son and I moved back to the coast (without Carl) and stayed there (with a 4 year jaunt to Washington State in the early 90s). But, I lived mostly on the coast (from Ojai to Santa Barbara). As for a career, all of it is in Administrative/Office Management with 9 years in the Plastic Surgery field, 3 years in medical (managed an out patient surgery center) and now I am in Dental. (Update: back in medical as AA to the Chief Medical Officer.) When I was a teenager, the love of my life was my horse Polly who died in 1974. (My ...Expand for more