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Dad was hoping I was a boy
Dad made mom watch football so I could hear it and get a "head start" -
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My Life
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Mom and Dad come up with my name
They agreed to name me Michelle if I was a girl -
Mom thought she was labor
This was the second time mom mistakenly thought she was in labor -
I was Born
After 22 hours of labor, I entered the world -
I said my first word, mommy
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I took my first steps to begin walking
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I was an easy-going child
I was comfortable being left with other people -
Mom was concerned I didn't have any hair
Mom took to me to the doctor to see if something was wrong with me. She was concerned I was two and had no hair. -
My brother Jimmy was born
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Still no hair
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I fell into the lake
I fell off the dock into the lake at my grandparents cottage. Dad jumped in to save me. -
I began pre-school at Livonia Little Tots
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I finally had some hair to show off!
Mom was very happy, people finally knew I was a girl. -
I was spoiled
My parents and grandparents spoiled me a bit too much. -
I was able to write my name and began reading
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My best friend in kindergarden was a boy named Peter Jacobs
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I began to use strictly my right hand
In the first few years of my life I used both hands to write, feed myself, ect. Now I devolped to be right handed. -
My sister Melissa was born
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I was reading above my age level
By the time I was in second grade I was at a fifth grade reading level. -
I took dance lessons and gymnatstics
I took dance lessons from ages three to eleven, gymnastics from ages seven to ten -
I was on a softball team
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I began learning how to speak french
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I was teased and bullyed
I was teased and bullyed throughout elementary school -
I began puberty
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My sister Cari was born
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My grades began to fall in school
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I choose the wrong peer group to associate with
I hung out with the wrong crowd in middle school and high school -
My mother and I bickered frequently
My mother and I fought over everything from ages twelve to eighteen -
I began to test drugs with peers
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I dropped out of High School
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I met my best friend
I met Theresa, who is still my closest friend to this day -
My daughter was born
I had my daughter Mya when I was nineteen -
I found a new church to attend
I found a church that differed slightlty from what my childhood church was, and loved it. I became a member of this church. -
I received my GED and started college
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My daughter Isabella was born
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My boyfriend and I bought a house
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My expected college graduation date
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I believe I will still be in good health
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I am prepared to take of my aging parents
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I believe this is my death year
Both of my great-grandmas lived to be over one hundred years old.