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I Finally Did It

          I was one of those kids who knew there was something better than the life I was living at home. There was just too much depressing stuff going on there, so I quit school in the ninth grade and "escaped " into a way too early marriage. After eight years of boredom but stability, I left and struck out on my own.
         For a long time I didn't even think about going back to school. I met my current husband got married again and began to have children. There was nothing better (then) than staying at home with my children, watching Blue's Clues and Little Bear and taking naps at 2pm.
         But, eventually, the work force called me back to visit and I realized I was not in the running for a good job. By this time I had thought about my GED going so far as checking a practice book out of the library and trying one of the tests it contained...sadly, this was as far as it got.
         It took intervention to get me to the GED testing center. One day, my sister-in-law called me up and asked me to go withher to the center because she did not want to go by herself. I took a pretest, then the test, then a CPT exam and BAM--community college, two Associate degrees (English and Psychology), one AAS (Biotechnology), a BA in English (Salem College) waiting for Spring and a journey to an MFA in Creative Writing.
          You could say, I have accomplished two of my childhood dreams with one stone. I have (some of) the education I always wanted and I am a writer. Here I am...I finally did it!

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