Susan Moran:  

In school, I was probably obnoxious... due to the difficult home life I endured. I was told that I was adopted at age six but later discovered I was living a lie. I was not adopted until I was sixteen--and used the name Moran when I should have been Susan Lansbury. Nothing was done to protect me--it was all done to hide my mother's secrets. Growing up in that house was difficult. In any case, I had a series of difficult and unsuccessful relationships --spent three years in the US Navy as a photojournalist, stationed at Pearl Harbor. I finally settled down when I married Ronald L. Chisum, USN and we had a family. Then they found the cancer in his military retirement physical. He never retired. I was widowed with four children, ages one to nine. Two were still in diapers! After that. . . I decided to define myself with education--something I had been told growing up that I would not need, althoug...Expand for more