by D.K. Knight

Created on: May 03, 2008

As a child one dreams about who they will become as an adult. I not being a catholic wanted to be a nun. That didn't work out and the dream changed to joining the Navy. Again it wasn't to be.
I got married at 17 and by 21 I had three children, and was divorced. I began going to college to become a lawyer. This was 1979 and had to withdraw from college to help my parents with my paternal grand parents. Grandfather Joe was dying of cancer and they were staying with my parents while he had treatments. Shortly after they returned to their home My father was told that he too had cancer and that he had about 6 month with the surgery. However 7 surgeries and reconstruction of his neck - he as a neck breather would live another 17yr.

Once things were better I continued with my life and back on the road to college and this time I wanted something creative so I was thinking a photo-journalist.

I was in a new relationship and soon added another child to my family. I loved being a mother and loved college. My personal life was always rocky another relationship ended and then I remarried a man in the navy, move to San Fransisco and forgot college devoting my time to my children and my new husband. This marriage lasted just a few years and again I was a single parent however my children needed me less and less as they matured.

In 1990 I was assaulted and left with a serious head injury and nerve damage. I moved then to a new state an return to college. This time I became a interdisciplinary major studying creative writing, performing and fine arts, and philosophy. I know crazy! I was finally doing it then, in my third year just as I was finishing my finals during fall term my father died the day after thanksgiving. With in the next week I was back at my parents home.
This time I knew my college life as over - my mother you see was blind legally and deaf without her hearing aids. Father had always done for her and Now I knew it was to up to me to take over. I knew my three brothers and my sister could not cope with her needs.
I didn't mind mother was my friend, not just my mom. We loved chatting and spending time together.
However, I needed more I meet and married Allen and we were like too bulls and after about 6 months of clashing we separated. The divorce cam two years later. We have remained friends over the years.
That was my last relationship and my last time I attended College. My children were now 21 19 17 and 13 so I devoted my time to mother and them. My two younger children

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