Sharonley (Shari) Anderson Stevens:  

I wasn't a very interesting person in school, and I guess I haven't changed much over the years except that I got older. Lol. I married right out of high school in October. I had 3 kids; 2 boys and a girl. Got divorced in 1984. In December 2000, my oldest boy committed suicide standing in front of an oncoming train. I met the man of my dreams in 1989 and married him in 1990. Funny thing though: his name was Gary, just like my first. His first was named Sharon. He had 2 girls and a boy, I had 2 boys and a girl. We used to joke about it saying life messed up on us. In May 2000 I had a simple surgery done that went wrong, and damaged all the nerve endings in my left hip and outer left leg. It left me partially disabled, which cost me my job of 14 years leading up for the last 6 years to be an Engineering Documentation Specialist in the Engineering Department of a large Aero-Space Manufacturing Company. The house we had in Illinois started falling apart and we couldn't afford so much that had to be fixed, so we sold it and moved to Kansas in 2005, where Gary was born and raised. I liked it out here so much when we visited his family that we decided to retire out here. We bought a home in a nice little town called Ottawa. He got a job working for a huge trash and recycling company. He really liked it even though it was hard work, but he made good money. He would call me twice a day to make sure I was alright, and to let me know he was ok. February 3, 2012, he called me at 10:00 AM, his usual morning calling time. One hour later, I received a call from the Human Resources...Expand for more