juliet boost:  

was moved from el cajon, ca. in the middle of 5th grade and plopped into a city of 10,000. what a culture shock! my father was an engineering geologist and my mother a nurse, i went to sage elementary and met bonnie conrad, randy holtz, rod tippit, barbara fraasch. transfered to juniper middle school, and had the very good fortune to meet Marianne lucas, Mike Reese, and Teresa bowman. i was shy and very much afraid to get in front of class and do math, my worst subject. I also made very good friend's with mary reyonds and spent alot of time at her house. since lost contact with her. marianne and i entered palmdale high with great trepidation. all i wished were those 4 years to pass quickly, a very lucky move to sumac ave., where every other house held a fellow classmate. my dad put a pool in our backyard, and every other summer either my first cousin, laura, would spend a month in palmdale and the next i would go to poway with her, a suburb outside of san diego. learned to ride well in poway , and spent hours in quartz hill riding horses for hours with marianne, i graduated a semester early and went to AVJC where I met Gary montrose and fell in love.we were together even after i moved to san diego to attend nursing school at age 17! i must have been out of my mind.it did not end well with Gary, much to my sorrow. I have been here except for a brief move back ...Expand for more