Margaret Welcome:  

I'm a happy retired school teacher who was very surprised at how my life turned out. In those books we got to record school memories I wrote that I wanted to become a teacher, get married and have a big family. Well I became a teacher after doing my student teaching in San Paulo and got a job in Lorain. I truly loved my job and just when I thought I wouldn't get married (I was 27) I met this wonderful man while working part time at a resturant. We got married three weeks before our tenth class reunion. We hoped to start a family right away, but nothing happened. We spent the next 9 years going through tests and surgeries and then as we were about to try invitro, I bought a brass crib and wound up pregnant the next month. Unfortunately she was to be our only one. Just as we thought we had the world in our hands, my husband had an aortic annuersym and passed away Mother's Day, May 10th,1997. Then three months later I had back surgery and was flat on my back for three months. So then I became a single parent of a 10 year old and learned a whole nother way of life. Then when she was a sophomore, I had to have back surgery again. A Ballerina I'll never be, because I can't stand on my toes anymore, but I can walk, Thank God. I went back to school after retiring and was on my way to becoming a psychologist, when my frie...Expand for more