: About Me

My maiden name is Alyssa Graf and I am twenty years old. I recently got married to Adam Marquess. I am originally from Calera/Montevallo, Alabama (about 30 miles south of Birmingham on I-65). I now live in Pensacola, Florida with my husband and soon will be expecting a baby boy named Logan William in December.
I am on my eighth edition of my journals that I keep, starting from the seventh grade all the way until now; hopefully in the future I will finally have a chance to edit and publish them...but for now, my words and thoughts during my adolescence and beyond are locked away in thousands of pages within spiral notebooks.
My mother died three years ago and her home town is Pensacola so I am lucky to be living here like she once did.

I wouldn't say that I had an easy childhood. Growing up with an abusive jealous sister trying to find my place in life. Having to deal with my insecurities as well as others' trying to put me down so they would feel ten feet tall. Searching for that someone that I will spend the rest of my life with when I was just thirteen but finding it in the wrong place. I was experimenting with drugs and alcohol at a young age; experimenting with the psychedelics, amphetamines, and even methamphetamines. While normal kids with their parents still together were all into sports or any other school activity, I was caught up with the wrong crowd...marking down everything that I have witnessed and experienced through my racing stages in my journals. I guess you could say that I was on my own long before I could even drive.

Modeling, well let's just say that was my childhood dream and still is. I could be a model...high-fashion is more like it. My father spent so much money on me to be spotted by any legitimate searches...especially ProScout. I went to a modeling school called Barbizon Agency; I picked up on some good interview advice and kept that with me but when I graduated finally from Montevallo High School and some how or another I met Adam in Calera then we moved down here...modeling doesn't seem to be in my schedule anymore.

My senior year was horrible! On August 28th of 2004, my family and I watched my mother take her last breath from being imprisoned in the cancerous womb that I knew for so long. That day was on a Saturday and school just started from a week before. I went to school on that next Monday...why? I thought it wouldn't so bad. The numbness and isolation I felt kept me from saying a word to anybody at school. No one (unless one parent has died) knows how that must have felt for me. I was an idiot. Thank the Lord that I believed in Him then like I do now...or I could have killed myself or something. Done tried that before...not to get in to it.

I will add some of my entries and poems from my journals to fill in the holes in this "about me" for further understanding.

Relationships & Family > Acquaintances & Co-Workers Weird neighbors stories

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I live on the worst side of the city and I see strange people around all the time, especially my neighbors! Directly across the street from my house, there is an old woman, a dog, and her son (which seems to be in his late forties) live there. One day, my husband and I were carrying our groceries from our car to the house when the old woman asked us if we wanted a watermelon. Of course we said yes (just to be nice), but it was strange because we don't know her at all. She came out of her house with the watermelon and my husband went over there to grab it and thanked her. He told me that sh...

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