I guess it all started when I was four or five, when he bought a branch of a business and we were forced to move to Nebraska. He moved up there about eight months before mom and I did, while he was there he oversaw the building of our new home and started up business, and he came home to see us when he had the time. Once mom and I moved in, he started the whole traveling bit and he would often be gone anywhere from two to three weeks at a time and when he was home he would usually be at the office catching up on back paper work.

As time went by, his buying accounts and the territory that he traveled increased, and what little time that I did get to spend with him dwindled more. As I started to get older and developed my own interests and hobbies, like bikes, roller blades, and engines. I became very used to living my life alone. Mom was there for me when I needed he

By the second grade I was not a stranger to trouble. A lot of the trouble I got in to was for the attention that I received from it, if I wasn't yelling at the teacher I was tearing everything up or fighting with the kids out on the playground. I kept getting into more and more trouble, then I put my mom over the edge and she took me to see my first psychologist. From that point on the "shrinks" office was like a new home to me coming in at a close second to the principal's office. When the first couldn't straighten me out within about a year then came another, when yet another year passed and trouble was still one of my very close friends then I was lucky enough to meet another fellow that thought he could figure me out. After about the third or forth "shrink" I started to calm down but with every new grade my reputation always seemed to beat me to the punch and the trouble would start all over again.

toe to toe, but he never struck me again, and I never have hit him, as badly as I have wanted to at times. I think that the implied love for him and the actual love that I am starting to feel towards him these last couple of years when he is around, are the only things that have kept us from boxing.

r but I kind of liked being alone and she was busy enough between work and my infant sister without me bothering her. I learned to do most everything by myself. All of my knowledge was self-taught by trial and error, everything from riding a bike to catching a baseball.

By the fourth grade my dad had been fed up with my troubles and I and decided to sell off the business to try and spend more time with me and try to straighten me out himself. We moved to Lenexa, Kansas were I was supposed to be able to start all over without my reputation beating me to the punch. The only problem with the move was the fact that with my dad's new job traveling would be a

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