Martha Stewart:
CLASS OF 1967
West High SchoolClass of 1967
Rochester, NY
John Walton Spencer Elementary School 16Class of 1962
Rochester, NY
Martha's Story
Marc Lane died of sepsis, a result of colon cancer, on July 14, 2011.
He leaves his wife of 40 years, 6 children, and 9 grandchildren. We all miss him very much.
Life
It took me a long time to find myself after high school. I worked as a volunteer for 17 years at the Chautauqua Ice Works. I was very lonely. I ate my lunch alone every day in the employees cafeteria. There was no one to talk to. My work went unappreciated. The other employees gave me the cold shoulder. It was my job to lift the 150 lb blocks of ice onto the slicing table and then take a hot wire and slice the blocks up and down and right to left into ice cubes. I wanted to get out of cubes and transfer to the crushed ice department because they were a lively bunch, but to qualify you needed to have size 12 feet and mine were only 11 1/2. I sensed that there was little chance for advancement. My heart wasn't in it. I moved to Connecticut to raise tulips. Again, I was dissatisfied with my lot in life....Expand for more
Therapy wasn't cutting it. I began to consider transgender modifications. I felt that becoming a woman would fulfill my destiny. All my colleagues said "You go for it, girl fren". So I did. It didn't come out half bad, if I have to say so myself. Just like gardening. A little pruning here, a little mulch there. The results of the operation gave me the courage to start my own television show. Now I'm an icon; before the operation I had hardly dared to be a footnote. My friends from high school are always surprised when they meet me. They half-expected the sex change but they just can't get over how doggone handy I've become. In high school shop I had been all thumbs. My life is good now, but even icons can get a bit lonely. Few friends call and even fewer care. Most nights I'm reduced to writing my number on virtual telephone booths: for a good time call em lane twenty two fifty at A oh ell dot com. I guess the old adage is true: It's ever so lonely at the top.
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