Debbie Gatlin:  

Debbie resides in Fort Gaines, Georgia. Debbie is married, She and her husband each had two children from previous marriages, and altogether have 9 grandchildren. Due to moving often Debbie attended 10 different elementary schools, 4 junior high schools and two high schools. Debbie's parents divorced before she started school, and then she was bounced back and forth between them. Her father picked up and moved several times in the middle of the night with no warning, to keep her mother from finding her. Debbie suffered greatly and lacked socializing skills as a result. She felt she was always an outsider to her classmates, she was, painfully shy, withdrawn, and lacking self esteem. She was not allowed to participate in any extracurricular activities, have any friends over to her house, nor go to anyone else's home. Perhaps now when one reads this, one can understand just how miserably awkward and lonely her school experiences were. Debbie legally changed the spelling of her name to Debi ages ago, because she had been signing it that way since about puberty. She detested being called Deborah, because that was not her name. She had changed the spelling in hope that the abbreviated version would remind teachers. In the middle of her senior year in Wingfield, it became impossible for Debi to remain in her father's home and she ran away one night; was by the grace of God, found hitchhiking down the interstate by a classmate who picked her up, and helped to reunite with her mother. And so, from January 72 until May '72 she attended and graduated from L. W. Higgins High School. Debi married at age 19, had two children and divorced at age 26. She had a second marriage that ended in divorce after 11 years. Debi is married to Tommy Carnes, Somehow in God's infinite wisdom and humor He brought these two together...this was before the age of computers. Debi and Tommy both had personal ads in the newspaper. Debi answered his ad, put a spell on him plying him with her culinary skills and delighting him with her intellect. He impressed her with his incredibly large and powerful brain and wit. He made her laugh. And she found herself experiencing things she never had before. They enjoyed concerts, museums, baseball and football games, rodeos, boxing ,car racing, botanical gardens, the beach, and shooting guns at his parent's farm. They just enjoyed each other's company! To Debi's delight she found that they both loved to eat the same things; from foreign foods to country cooking, and all seafood. They both were so smitten with each other, neither of them ever dated anyone else after the first meeting. They married a year and eig...Expand for more