Marsha Patten:
CLASS OF 1968
Fontana High SchoolClass of 1968
Fontana, CA
Marsha's Story
Life
Nowhere near the same person I started out to be in 1968 - feel like that quip which says life is not about being safe and saving your body all pristine. It's about at the end sliding into heaven at warp speed, body completely worn out and spent, shouting, "WOO HOO, WHAT A RIDE!" And what a great ride it's been so far - great tragedies, greater joys, marriages, divorces, learning to LOVE life alone, fortunes gained - and spent HA - one girl child, who gave me an amazing grandson, and a granddaughter on the way. Incredible abilities found along the journey I would have never known I had if it weren't for the life I HAVE lived. I am happy with me now, and getting happier all the time. I wore a great mask through high school. Most people would have never known I believed I would never deserve a good life - that I had lots of terrible, terrible secrets. And my early adult life lived up to those horrific expectations.
Something happened. Call it grace. Call it mercy instead of justice. Call it a miracle. Call it whatever you want - but somewhere along the path I came to believe that the very pain of my life could open the door to strength. And eventually to peace and joy. I am now a person I would have NEVER imagined myself to be. Fun, funny, smart, generous, lov...Expand for more
ing, warm - and more. Don't get me wrong, I have my share of character defects - : } - but one of the best gifts I've been given is that I have enough good to be able to live with the bad.
Don't know why I signed up here - mostly curiousity. Found several people I would love to know what happened to. And a few people who I would love to know I think of them, they aren't forgotten - they mattered. And one special person I was hoping to find and didn't - "him" of course, ha. I guess I watch too much television! Seen too many shows where old loves, and better yet SECRET loves find each other after many, many years. The one I had hoped to find was one of the secret variety. And I mean waaay secret - if he were reading this he would have no clue he was "the one". All of the old loves had definitely ended, some well, some not so well. But in my journey I found room to forgive the ones that needed forgiving - and hope they have found room to forgive me. I wish them well. If they have found half the peace and joy I have found, they are truly happy indeed. I could wish them nothing finer.
Sooo, like I said - sliding into heaven, body worn out and spent, shouting, 'WOO HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!"
Joy to all who stop here and remember me. And joy to those who don't
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