Wanda Mendillo:  

I have had a good life since the good ole` days of High school. Made my fair share of goofs...and thankfully they were ah ha moments that I learned valuable lessons from. After high school, I married my high school love and we had 3 great kids. The marriage went south after 13 years, but as most of us have learned by now, life does go on. I sang professionally with various bands as their lead singer and hostess for about 8 years but it made drinking and doing drugs to easy for me, so I quit.(all 3) I went on to marry another guy who gave me a lot of insight into another whole world that I dare say I wouldn't have ever learned of otherwise. John was a loving ole Italian...10 years older than myself. (which was GREAT for my self esteem!) He was however a man on a destructive path in his life and a tormented man. I won't write his life story however. He died nearly 5 years ago and is at peace now. He was a man in and out of prison because he kept returning to riding the white horse. It would be his one demon his whole life and our whole marriage. He was a lousy role model for my kids, but I couldn't have found a man that would love them more as his own & they loved him very much as well. He proudly stood and gave his oldest step daughter in marriage before he again returned to prison. It was because of John that I found my lives calling. I began to go into the prisons in California singing and playing the piano and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. I learned alot of the CDC through the years. I found that the prison system is set up for parolees to fail when they get out. There are of course those who should never be let out; I am not speaking of them. I am talking of the many I found who perhaps given drug counseling as a mandated program (which it's not...but A.A is) ...might very wel...Expand for more