Debra Morgan:  

CLASS OF 1977
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Grand prairie, TX
Mckinney, TX
Richardson, TX
Irving, TX

Debra's Story

Life 2009 Update I have been looking for work for about a year and a half. There are NO JOBS for Tech Writers or English Teachers around here. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. But I did have this spooky feeling that it had been a long time since 1929. Life Well believe it or not, someone out there wanted to know what has happened to me since high school. So, I thought I'd put it in here. After High School I went to college at UD. I got married right before I graduated in 1981. The marriage didn't work out and I got divorced in 1983. Since my plan of being a housewife/mother didn't pan out, I started grad school in Humanities at UTD. I had various jobs while I went to school through the mid-80s; waitressing, singing folk-rock in small venues, teaching assistant at the college. I decided to fall-back on my teacher training and in the late 80's I taught English and History at RL Turner High in Farmer's Branch. I also taught Intro to Humanities part-time for Collin County Community College at both campuses. Still, the money was not enough to live on, and I had student loans to pay. My dad helped me get into Technical Writing in the Telecommunications Industry. It's interesting and I really love to write, so I have stuck with that ever since. After being single for nine years, I married an attorney with the Dallas County Public Defender's Juvenile section in 1992. We had custody of his (then) three-year old daughter, so that and working fulltime kept me pretty busy. Kate was born in 1994, and then Emma in 1997. My obstetric file said I was elderly. Still, I managed somehow. Through all the years, I never quite got over my first real love affair with David Morgan back in high school. Periodically I tried to find him in classmates.com and people-find, but I never had any luck. I told myself I must have imagined how good things...Expand for more
had been; that real people didn't really feel that happy. Still, I kept checking periodically to see if he might turn up. I tried to figure out what he would look like now. Sometimes I would think maybe I saw him somewhere, but of course it wasn't him. Slowly my marriage fell apart and became difficult to bear. But, I was busy with kids and work, so I let it drag on. One day in 2001 I ran out of things to do at work, so I decided to check on classmates. That's when I saw his name. At first my friends thought I'd gone insane. After all, you are supposed to grow and change. How could somebody from so long ago be a good match? I guess it's because I never loved him for who he was, but rather for HOW he was. How you are, how you think, move, sound, smell, those things don't change. So I realized as soon as I saw him again that everything I'd done, and everyone I'd had relationships with, were all at least partly about finding him, getting him back. We were married in 2002 in my best-friend's garden with flowers and butterflies and family and music and some really terrific cake! I ADORE cake! So now we've been together for three years and we are still madly in love. It's hard sometimes, combining our families. David had a son who is only five, and there's my two girls, but the problems just don't seem to matter the way they did when I was married before. I was so lonely without David. I missed him so constantly that I thought the loneliness was just part of me somehow. Having him back is so amazing. Who cares if we don't agree on everything? I can put up with a lot to have him there at the end of the day. So here I am, with three great kids, a really cool house, a good job that I enjoy and do well at, and my true love waiting for me when I get home. It took a long time to get here, but this is a fabulous place to be. Life is GOOD!
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