They were in love, they had been for a while, 62 years to be exact, and they had lived a glorious life together, and loved every minute of it, they had married at ages 17 and 18. They met in high school, and were friends before, until, and after they got married, they got married in Pineville, in 1952. They lived in a small home, with one bedroom, and one bathroom, they decorated it, and made their own. My grandpa started working in the mines in 1951, in West Virginia, he worked at Consol Energy for a while, he was a coal miner, and brought home enough to feed him, and his wife. In 1954, my uncle Tim was born, he was the firstborn son of James and June, until 1956, when my uncle Mark was born, with two kids, and hardly any money, they moved to Beckley, WV, where I was born, and where they remained until 1988, and found a job at Appalachin Power, where my grandfather worked, and The Butcher Block, a local meat shop, is where my grandmother worked. In 1957, while still working at the meat she had worked at for a year, she had an accident with one of the machines, she somehow managed to get her finger caught in one of the machines cutting blades, and lost the tip of her finger, and she has the finger to prove it, her and my grandfather even tried suing the shop for a sum of money, they never did get any, it was a waste of time, and nerves, nothing ever good comes out of the court system. In 1959, my mom was born, and my aunt Lilian, who died in 2005, moved close to them, and took care of my mom from time to time, fed her, bathed her, and changed her diaper, and when she got older, took her shopping, and drove her school, she was like a second mom to my mom, and even went as far as inviting her into her home, and taking care of her. She went to school in Pineville Elementary School, and then went straight to Pineville High School. My aunt Stephanie was born in the Spring of 1971, and was taken care of most of the time by my mom, while my grandfather worked, and my grandmother kept the house. My grandmother was a decorator, and was a worked on designing houses for newlyweds, and was making enough money for them to move to a bigger house, and which they did, and did so in 1973. While in high school, my mom had been caught smoking several times, and was in trouble, but it was only for a very short time, and nothing was ever done. In 1980, my mom started working at Raleigh General, where I was born, in 1984, and was an LPN for a while, and then became a GP, working days in a row, with no sleep, but somehow managed to take care of me, my parents got married in 1981, they weren't married long, only three years, I am the only kid they had, and me and my mom moved back in with my grandparents in 1988. I was only 4 years old, and this is the same year we moved to Pounding Mill, Va, and lived in a motel for a months, and found a nice home up on top of Claypool Hill, with a fence, and swimming pool, I loved the swimming pool, but then again, what four year old wouldn't, it was one of those blow up pools, and I loved it, little did I know, we couldn't keep it, it didn't belong to us, it was gone, and I was heartbroken, I loved to swim, having done so living in Beckley before we moved. It wasn't long before I started Kindergarten, and was learning my ABC's, and learning how to count, and I loved it, yeah, I know, I was a crazy child. In 1989, at the age of 5, I was in a car accident, it destroyed me, but, I'll live. I was in Special Ed for a long time, all through Grade School, and had a learning disability, but I'm fine now, and I graduated college. I have a diploma in Digital Design. I want to do something in design one day, as well as the job I have now, and that's photography, I love taking photos of kids, especially babies, they warm my heart, but that's another story, for later on. My childhood was pretty uneventful, except for being in Special Ed, and playing with a cousin of mine, playing video games, which I still love, and playing with my dog Bridget. In 1996, I started a private school, for some reason, and had to do my work in PACE's, I hated those PACE's, lol, and after seven long years of getting into trouble, and doing school work, I graduated in 2003, and went on to college at Southwest Virginia Community College, where I spent four years taking off campus classes, and another three taking on campus classes, but decided to quit in 2008 to go to The Art Institute of Pittsburgh to take some classes in design, and try to get a Digital Design diploma, and I did, and it only took a year, and I am the proud owner of a Digital Design diploma, and I enjoyed every minute of trying, and I enjoyed the classes, they were very interesting, I loved learning graphic design, and how everything was made, and I graduated in 2010, and they sent me my diploma, and I receieved it two weeks later. Now-a-days I spend my time working as a photographer, and am trying to find some charities to get involved with. I want to go to Africa one of these days, too.
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