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| About Me |
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My name is Tom. "Hi, Tom!" says the support group. There's little special or spectacular about me. I am a person that just tries to take what he's given and work with it. I try not to have any regrets. I am a hard-worker, a quick-learner, and I try to excel at any job that is given to me. I won't be famous. I won't be infamous. But maybe, I'll make a difference. Perhaps I already have. Who knows? I was born in Indianapolis, although I don't call that place my hometown. I spent thirteen years of my life in Morristown, New Jersey, and most of my family lives in Danville, Kentucky. Those places make better hometowns than Indianapolis ever will. I was a small, quiet, black kid when I was a child. The sort that constantly was the target of bullies, or people that wanted to make a name for themselves so they wouldn't be the target of bullies any longer themselves. I had few friends and probably wrote more than I talked. I was placed in "gifted" programs in school because I was one of them smart kids. And so, I was the object of even more ridicule. I was beat up, knocked down and pushed around -- the sort of kid you always found in those 80's movies about high school. And then my family moved to Cincinnati. Talk about culture shock. People in New Jersey were direct and to the point, so that you always knew where you stood. People in Ohio would smile in your face, and then wait until you turned to test their knife in your back. Still, I found it was easier to make friends in Cincinnati than I did in Morristown. And then my mother died; she was shot and killed by a woman's boyfriend while trying to help her move out of his place. It's a traumatic incident in my life that maybe I'll go over some other time. But, strangely, after my mom's death, I came out of my shell and and became one of them popular sorts. Now, my family always had a good amount of money. We weren't rich, but we were quite definitely upper middle-class. So, of course, I wanted nothing to do with that money. Makes sense as a kid, I suppose. But there was always a different sort of price-tag for financial help. "I will give you this money, but you have to do |