Mandy Bell Andrews:  

Well...where to begin...I guess the beginning would be as good a place as any so here goes. Scott Duke (class of 74) and I married in Dec. 74. We were married almost 10 years, it lacked about two months being 10. Like any young couple, we had our ups and downs. We have two wonderful sons. Sometimes teenage marriages work and sometimes they don't. Ours didn't. But its all okay. Being married to a man in the Air Force did give me the opportunity to travel some in those ten years. We lived in Lubbock, Texas - Biloxi, Mississippi - Riverside, California (twice) - and Whitchurch, UK. The time in the United Kingdom was really fun. Where we lived, it was a slower pace of life than here in the U.S. I still have a very warped sense of humor. I guess my favorite saying is, "If I was any better, I'd be twins and then we'd all be in trouble!" I firmly believe that if you cannot laugh at yourself, you should never take the liberty of laughing at others. Rescuing turtles is a habit of mine. I will pull over to the side of the highway and take them out of the road. I am nice enough to take them to the side that they are heading to. To take them back the way they came would just be wrong. The little box turtles are very appreciative, but snapping turtles...well that's another story. They are terminally cranky and don't want to be rescued. (Found that out the hard way!) As I mentioned earlier Scott and I have two sons...they are now grown sons. Raising them was quite an adventure and having a sense of humor helped the three of us l...Expand for more