Kristine Withem:  

Well I know my best friends know my story but for the ones that don't know. I tried to get though my senior year like nothing was happening. The beginning of the year went great, but when it got closer to the end of the year I moved away from Issaquah to Kent. My mother was going to the hospital for reason that I did know about or just didn't want to know because she was losing weight, and she had tumors on her lungs. So I started acting really strange and just didn't want this to really be happening right then. I met a guy off the internet and I was going to take him to prom but I took one of my mother friend¿s son instead. Things got worse, she didn't leave the house, her legs, arms, and face all lost weight. Well my mother, grandma and brother went it to my graduation and she died on July 1, 99. There was a lot of decision that I had to make after that. I traveled back and forth from Idaho, Washington and California, filling out paper work and waiting for what my mother left me. I ended up moving to Idaho and lived with the guy that I met off the net, we live together for almost 7 years but I really got tier...Expand for more