Candace (Bolon) Meyers:  

Life I was always the quiet, shy, freckle-faced kid while I was attending school. A couple of years after I graduated from college, I suddenly underwent a major change. I lost 70 lbs, got a new car and apartment in El Segundo. I met my husband Rod at a Halloween party in 1997. My next-door-neighbor, Glenn, was a mutual friend, and he invited us both (can you smell a set-up?). Rod and I both wore the same costume - a faceless phantom. I unmasked before he did, so he just kept me guessing who this mystery man was. When he finally took the mask off, I wondered why he was hiding those beautiful, hazel eyes. We talked all evening and he took me home. We didn't hook up again until the following March when we started dating. I met his 12-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, Cassaundra. A couple of weeks into the relationship, I fell in love with him. A month later, he told me that he was going to move to Florida for work. So, I followed my heart, and my love, to the East Coast. A year-and-a-half after moving to the Fort Lauderdale area, I found out I was pregnant with my first child. Rod and I decided to get married, but postpone the wedding until after Adam was born in October 2000. We tied the knot in Las Vegas on August 8, 2001 and spent our honeymoon in...Expand for more