Deborah Hilton:  

I must have inherited my grandfather's "wandering blood." I was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming. My dad was a sergeant in the Air Force. We moved to California, Panama, Texas, and Florida while he was in the service. As an adult, I have lived in Arizona, Colorado, Virginia/DC/Maryland and California. I moved to Arizona with my boyfriend, who was a horse trainer. We moved together to Colorado. It wasn't a deliberate move; we had been planning to go back to Florida, but I wanted to drive back taking the northern route so I could see Cheyenne, where I was born. The Rocky Mountains were so beautiful that I had to stay. I moved by myself to Virginia when I graduated from the University of Colorado, because I wanted to work for the Enviornmental Protection Agency and couldn't get a job with the local branch in Denver. I had a sister living in Northern Virginia, so I went there to pursue my dream. Unfortunately, President Clinton imposed a hiring freeze a month later. I lived in a couple different apartments in Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland while trying to adapt to the DC culture. I couldn't do it. Just too political and power-oriented for me. I then moved to the San Francisco Bay ARea in California, where another sister and my brother were living. I worked for a while in the legal field, but didn't like it because I felt that I wasn't ...Expand for more