For the 22 years that I have been on this earth, there is one thing that I have definitely learned so far: Just when things finally seem to be going your way, life slaps you in the face with a sock full of quarters! What makes me say such a dreadful thing? What happened to my family and me last year is the greatest testament to this opinion. I guess I should start from the beginning …showed first 75 words of 1951 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1951 total…own bathroom. But they say that whatever does not kill you makes you stronger and I believe this experience did this for me. Life is finally going my way again: I have a roof over my head, food on the table, and I am back in school. Now I wait for life to once again attempt my derailment, or, at least, for that damn sock full of quarters to slap me down again! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**