Christie Perez:  

Hello, Many of you probably don't know me. I use to have a big blue Mohawk in high school and wore 20 hole boots; so most people in high school knew me as sonic, or called me a Nazi (which I wasn't), or just plain old freak. I didn't join classmates to get all chummy with people who were cruel to me but to say hello to all the people who really knew me. If you knew me you most likely are thinking that I dropped off the face of the planet after high school. I ended up hitch hiking and hopping trains across the country for on and off for several years. I stayed in Denver on and off during that time and came crawling back to Santa Rosa when ever my life hit the gutter. I meet my now husband Jim on the streets in Denver in the spring of 2000. He knocked me up in a boxcar during a thunderstorm. I found out I was pregnant on the streets in Minneapolis. Our lives were an utter mess and we wanted to keep our baby and get our lives on the right track. Things were rocky betweens us and I left Jim to straighten up or he would have to be out of our baby's life. So there I was 23 living with my mom again wit...Expand for more