Erin Garcia:  

Life After high school I went to IU in Bloomington. Graduated in 1999. While I was there I met a guy name Alex Garcia we started dating then he ran off and joined the US Marine Corps. We kept on seeing each other and got married when I was a Junior in 1998. I stayed in Indiana and had our daughter, Celestina, my senior year in 1998. Then I ran off to North Carolina and joined him until his enlistment was up. We came back to Indiana in 2000. He went to Bloomington IN to live with my brother Blaine and attend IU while I stayed with my parents and worked. We were flat broke and couldn't really afford a place of our own so decided to save money this way. Plus I was pregnant again and it just made sense. Anyway Roman, our son was born 2 months premature in August 2000. We stayed in North Vernon until 2002 with Alex coming home on Thursdays and going back on Sunday nights. I worked for Muscatatuck in the Psych Department, Quinco, and then Child Protective Services (which totally sucked). Finally we moved to the house we are in now about 15 mile west of Bloomington. I transferred to Child Protective Services over here and worked until 2004 when my husband Alex, who is in the Indiana National Guard, was deployed to Afghanistan for 18 months. While there he helped to open a new camp called Camp Phoenix and helped to train the soldiers in the Afghan National Army. Since then I have not returned to work full time. I worked for about a year at my son's pre-school just to be near him and have something to do and then for about 4 months as the Social Services ...Expand for more