Shelly Meko:  

Life 1987 I moved to California with my now husband Nick, who was a Springfield HS Grad (87') we lived there for about 4months, then moved back. When we moved back we lived by Dorr & Holland-Sylvania, for about 10 months, then moved to Heatherdowns, where we lived for 1yrs, then moved back to California, where we lived in a town called Corona for 13 yrs, we got married in June of 1992, had a child, a boy in 1993 who is now 12 1/2. In 1995 when my son was 18 months old he was malled by one of our friends dog (a Greman Shepard) the dog bit my son 3 times in the face, he had to have over 45 stiches in his face they only wanted to stich the outside of his face, but I said I want a plastic surgeon to work on him, they told me it would be 4 hrs until they could get to one, but one came in in less than an hour when they heard it was a baby. We bought a house there fixed it up, loved the neighbors, they were all friendly & fun. One night in January of 2000 early in the middle of the night (around 1am) we had a fire, we lost our garage, & had alot of smoke damage to the house, we lost alot memories & keepsakes, but our lives were spared thanks to some people who were passing bye, (too this day I say that they were angles, because they were dressed in all white & driving a white car) we never seen them or that car again, we placed an ad in the local paper asking them to come forward, for almost 6 months, but no response. we continued to live in the house until 2001. On Christmas Day 2000 my husband Nick gave me a present & said open this one, & there was some papers in there, not sure of what I was looking at, I ask what are they & he said to read them, I said to him jokingly, "what are they divorce papers?", he said NO just read the top line on the papers, and it was the new loan papers to the house we now live in out in Swanton, OH. I was confused at first, but he said that he knew I wanted to come back home where my family was, & he wanted the same too. We lived out there by his father & ...Expand for more