Jessica Butler:  

Life Life has been pretty typical for me until a couple of years ago.I do not know if my life resembled more of a soap opera or a TV reality show! Of course, like most everyone, I graduated high school and college. I dated and dated, got engaged, broke off the engagement, dated, and dated again. I have succeeded in business which is my second joy, writing being my first. I have been asked to publish some things with some editing involved. I am still on the editing part, going on about eight years now. I cannot help it! Life happens. Over the years, we have all lost people that we have loved. I lost my first friend in the world, Tammy Griffen in 1998 to a car accident. I had lost one of my great-grandmothers the week before that. She was 94 years old. This was a difficult time for me because this was really the first time I experienced death. As time passed by, another great-granmother of mine who was 99 years old passed away as I kept working my fingers to the bone at my job, avoiding my fiance about the inevitable and as my sister was hooking up with the man of her dreams. Gabriel, my sister, was married July 21, 2002. This was the second wedding I had been in, in less than a week, mind you. This was the fourth time (You read right. The FOURTH time) I had been a bride's maid. Following the Summer of Weddings 2002, In 2003, my two remaining great-grandparents (Yeah, my family are actually vampires, who never die!) became ill, so I decided to move them in with me. What was I thinking!!! Here I was head of a full service pool construction business, finishing up college, and taking care of an 88yr old and a 86yr old that had been married for 70 years and bickered like they were divorcing tomorrow! Also, through this whole process, another very good friend of mine passes away from cancer and my cousin, Jordon Crabtree, decideds he is getting married 1 month from the time he called me and he is going to be a daddy!!!! I had already been to Kentucky twice that year, and now I was going to have to pay a war price for a plane ticket to go to a shotgun wedding in the backwoods of someplace near Fort Knox, KY. Lovely! Of course, I went, and it was, well, differ...Expand for more