What I wanted most in the world when I was growing up in Toledo, Oregon, was to get married, live in the country, have a big family and a lot of animals. I thought that this was an impossible dream for me. How was I ever going to find someone to marry me. I had lived a pretty sheltered life and hadn’t been around boys much at all. My Dad even worked long hours at his grocery store and wasn’t home many hours during the day. So, boys were a mystery to me. I didn’t relate well with them and I always seemed to misunderstand them. They all seemed to feel the same about me. Mom told me not to worry, that life has a way of working out. She said she had felt the same way when she was growing up and everything had worked out, so not to worry. I also tried to figure out what I wanted to do to support myself. Nothing really appealed to me except for being a Mother. In college I had many different majors trying to figure out what I could do to make a living. In the end my biggest surprise in life is that everything worked out exactly how I wanted it to. Mom was right, I didn’t need to worry. I met and fell in love with Brian the first month I was in college and away from home. I was able to be the mother to five children and stay home to raise them. We usually lived in places with lots of land around us and we had a lot of animals, dogs, cats, chickens, goats, horses and ponies. I feel very happy, fulfilled, grateful and surprised.
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