Linda Love:  

Life after High School¿. Actually I suppose I could begin with why I never finished high school. You see, my parents divorced the summer before my senior year. After selling our house, my father moved to Mexico and my mother and I moved into a two-bedroom apartment. To pay for my half of the rent, I went to work at May Company. Six months later my mother began dating a much 'younger' man. He was nineteen years old to be exact. Having a sixteen year old daughter around rather cramped her style so she asked me to move out. I moved into a studio apartment. Never had a TV so I read... a lot. My days started out parking cars for a country club from 5-7:30 am, went to school, then worked at MayCo from 3pm-closing. Not long after, my grades just dropped and I couldn't continue. Eventually I just stopped coming to school. I did see you all graduate though! I was sitting outside the school watching you, wishing I could be there with you. Fast foreword...In 85` I was working as the art coordinator for a direct mail marketing company. This is where I met my husband. We married in 89` and had our first child in 91`. After our son was born, we moved to a small town called Hemet located in the lower desert. We bought our first home, started a business. After our second child was born, I went back to school and took night classes. I started working as a preschool teacher for the Head Start Program and it was then I realized that it was because of my past, that I had the gift of understanding what the under privileged children and their families were going through. Fast Foreword...My husband and I divorced in 2002. He got the house, the business, and a new wife and family....Expand for more