Dwane St.Marie:  

Wow my story.. Really? Do you think there will be a book deal in this? Lets see. What would surprise everyone? Hmm.. welp after leaving school early I ended up in a DYS juvenile offender forestry camp out on the cape. It was kinda fun actually. They thought they where going to punish me for being a naughty youth and make me do manual labor. Only instead it got me out of that one horse town of Shelburne and back into the world where a person can think and have individual thoughts. It was like summer camp for me. A log cabin and a warm bunk. 3 squares a day and nothing but nature and time to think things through. There was no real manual labor. Just exercise and activity dawn to dusk. Hiking, boating, obstacle courses and even learned how to sail on the ocean. By the time I got back home I was convinced that the world was much better than Shelburne and I was going to check it all out. So I left on adventures. Did some hitching around the north east with a frenchmen Reginauld and we had a blast. Picking up odd jobs and just raising hell along the way. Then his papers ran out and he had to leave for his native home France. I have not talked to him in years now. But heard he is government and has a wife and kids. Good for him. So off I was again on my own. Taking bus trips to destinations for no reason at all. Just to say I was there I guess. I always knew I was just wasting time being a vagabond of sorts but hell it was better than sitting on the steps of bridge street. After a year or two I started sticking home again and thats when it hit me. Love.. romeo & julietta style. Her name was Lucy Ferland and yes she was a local (turners) girl. That was it, I was going to grow old and die with this woman. I was sure of it. My first real love and hers as well. He parents hated me.. grin .. and that was just fine by me. I was trouble come to take their little girl. - We made it through about 4 years of it. Even moved into an apartment together. Then it all sort of left me. I was 21 and engaged and looking around thinking I have missed a lot. The parents that had been dogging our relationship were winning. The wandering eye was working it's mind games. All of the sudden, I wasn't so sure this was the one. I think s...Expand for more