gayle goodman:  

To start with this Classmates.com service does not seem to be working right and I may cancel it. But I will try again. What is my story? Which one? At 79 years old, I have a lot of them I could tell .What did I do after high school? Well, I was married before I finished so I went right into being a housewife and mother. I really was not meaning to set any kind of record but I had three children by the time I was 22-years-old. And then God, himself, apparently felt sorry for me and I did not have any more. Then, I did the whole bit, PTA, Girl Scouts, piano , dancing, voice lessons for the kids. They were all girls so I did not help any with athletics. I just provided some of the cheerleaders. I went to work when my youngest daughter was 5-years old. Worked as the advertising rep for the Altus AFB newspaper for about five years, was a catalog department manager for one year, worked at a factory for another year and even sold Tupperware for awhile among other things. Sadly, I had to divorce my husband before the girls were grown. But the oldest was in college, when I took a civil service test and wound up working at Tinker AFB for about 25 years before I took a retirement package. After that I wrote a book about western artist Fred Olds that took some time. In 2000 I had heart surgery and I have been operating with some kind of highfalutin'...Expand for more