Tyna Winegarden:  

Many of you would probably remember me as the shy and quiet one of the bunch and well, some may not remember me at all. I only went to ERHS for my Junior and Senior year of school but a few I knew before I attended from the summers with my Aunt Nancy and Uncle Ernie in Willimsburg. Well, life has sure had its ups and downs since before I graduated thirteen years ago. Some may remember some of the downs... my grandfather passing away the year of my junior year, my Mom and my Stepmom both passing away my senior school. Seven months after my graduation my grandmother had passed away. My Dad would not speak to me.I felt lost and turned to drugs and alcohol to sooth my emptiness. I would say I regret this part of my past, but I don't; it was a hard lesson and one I needed to learn. My early twenties I thought life was all about pain, anger, bitterness. I thought life was not worth living, so why live it? I was lost until someone very close to me looked me in the eye and told me I needed help. I had already been...Expand for more