Deborah Fotis:  

Life March 27th 2005 will be my 15th wedding anniversary. I have 4 children and have accomplished more then I could possibly dreamed. Many of you know my husband Michael Fotis. We went to Southwood together. We have known each other now for 23 years. He is 24 days older then me and we will both be 36 in July. I know a lot of my former classmates are interested in what I am doing or what I look like. The main reason is that most of you teased me in school. You made my life a living hell and made me hate going to school. You made me embarrassed for being poor, you made me embarrassed for being me. I had very few friends.. mostly I hung out with the burnouts, because they were the only ones who accepted me for who I was. I was a kid, and could not help the fact that I did not have Jordache jeans, or Nike shoes. I could not help the fact that my mother was a single parent trying to raise 4 children on her own. Hell I did not even know I was poor until my classmates pointed it out to me. In turn it made me a stronger person. My children have been taught not to tease their classmates because they do not know what their home life is like. I have a loving husband, an excellent job and a wonderful family. I grew up hating life. I learned ove...Expand for more