Jacqueline Brophy:  

Life hmm - who thought i'd be writing a biography at the tender age of 40-something?? well, let's see- i live in virginia - have since 1994, so i guess it could be considered permanent - i bought a house so i wouldn't move back to New York (City) too quickly, and i didn't!! i got married, so that made it much much harder. still in the same house - in an older section of richmond, called "THE FAN" - love it. no kids, just cats and a husband. work too much - always have, and i blame it on my parents- hmm - revisiting this section and looked at the story ideas proposed by the site - their questions generate a lot of thoughts - what happened to my first crush - who can say who my first crush was? growing up when/where i did - it was likely to be one of 4 or 5 people - doug mchugh or chipper fenn, or, if you were someone other than me, my brother. so instead, this made me think of the first person that my older self thought was a serious, potentially long lasting "thing" - Mark Sears. he died. likely killed hismself, although that wasn't clear at the time and i didn't pursue it. he changed in college, it was sad and difficult and i didn't handle it well. next question - skipping the "how would old frie...Expand for more