Loralee Merrifield:  

I'm pretty sure that my friends from High school and from SLC remember me as sweet...innocent....naive...their friend...And, that's exactly how I would want to be remembered. I wonder why I lived in such an incredibly negative environment at home and decided at such a young age that I wouldn't allow that to be who I was....I think that most "kids" reflect their parents...I always wanted to be the opposite of them. I think that maybe once I was married...I was becoming them....Unhappy...but just before I turned 50 I was diagnosed with a very fast moving form of skin cancer....during the surgery to remove it the doctor told me that if it had moved in to my brain...there was nothing that she could do about it. It was like a slap in the face..."wake up, Loralee" This is your life!!! The worst didn't happen...and I felt like I'd been given a second chance....so, now I'm living my life...I'm doing it my way with joy and laughter and happiness..Not sure that many people would say that Cancer was the best thing to ever happen to them...I do!!! I've been divorced for...Expand for more