Peggy Strickland:  

As far back as I can remember, my "career" ambition was to be a mother. I have three children. I'm divorced. My oldest son is former Special Forces, and now a federal agent, married with no children. My daughter is divorced, has four children and works as a nursing assistant. My youngest son, who died in a freak accident in August 2000, was a very talented artist/sculptor. My current aspiration (mid-life crisis maybe)is to go back to Singapore for a visit. AMAZING place!! One of the Story Wizard's suggestions for topics here is, "What happened to your first crush?" You know, I was wondering about him last year, and actually found him online. I started to contact him, but we were all of 8-9 years old that summer when he kissed me on the cheek and sent my heart into overdrive. I finally did contact him, but then didn't return to the online site for quite sometime (don't remember why...life interrupted, I guess). Then one day at work, someone with the same (rather uncommon)last name came in, and I asked if she might be related to him. Turns out she was his daughter-in-law. I told her to please say "hello" to him for me, and she said he was deceased. I was stunned. Then, a little while later, I visited that online site again, and it turns out he had tried to contact me, too. It would have been great to touch base with my childhood crush, but I blew the opportunity. To make a long story short, people...we, the class of '64... aren't g...Expand for more