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My Birthday
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The First two years
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FIrst word
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Able to sit up unassisted
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Began to be wary of strangers and experience anxiety without mother around
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The Play Years
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I began to become overweight due to bad eating habits
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My Mother began teaching me to read
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I began to be given chores, like cleaning my room, that came with consequences if I did not finish. Discipline became a factor in my actions
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I Began pre-k and it was discovered that I am left handed
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I Began to realize my gender role as I saw boys being given different toys, and taught different skills.
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I Began reading anything I could get my hands on, significantly improving my vocabulary and cognitive skills
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The School years
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I Was taken to the doctors and told I was severely overweight. I remained overweight for another 4 1/2 years
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My parents and I moved from westland, where I was bullied severely, to Garden City where I made my first friends.
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I Tried out for basketball at school and made the team
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Adolescence
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I grew started wearing a full bra size for the first time
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Had my first romantic relationship, lasted almost a year
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I joined the high school marching band
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Relied heavily on my friends in band for social stability
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Recieved my ACT test score, received a 23
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Graduated from High School with honors
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Enrolled in college
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Became a lifeguard and swim instructor
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Began losing more weight
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Emerging Adulthood
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Beginning to be less hostile to the idea of a religious faith
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Move out of my parents house and into an apartment
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Graduate from college with a degree in English and a secondary education certification
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Will mary Michael Pickett in the spring after our college graduation
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Will get first job as a teacher in a high school, teaching composition
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Will have my first child, hopefully a girl.
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Adulthood
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I will have trouble conceiving a second child due to a genetic fertility issue, will use invitro fertilization
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I will purchase my first home with my husband
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I will complete a masters degree in English, earning me a raise in salary
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My husband will be offered a job in another state, causing unrest in our marriage until the issue is resolved, with him taking the job and us moving
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Stress in my marriage causes therapy to be necessary, a divorce is avoided
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I will purchase my first investment property and begin investing in the housing market part time
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My mother will need to become a part of my household in her old age
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I will take a part time position teaching night classes at a local community college
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My first child will go off to college out of state
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My second child will go to college
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Late Adulthood
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I will retire from teaching to go into real estate full time
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My husbands mother passes away suddenly
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My first child will graduate college a year late
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First child gets married
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My youngest child will graduate college
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My Younger child will have their first child, my first grandkid
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My husband will be diagnosed with skin cancer
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Husband has operation to remove cancerous spots
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I leave some of my investments to my children
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My husband and I retire
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I am diagnosed with heart disease
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I begin writing a book about my life, dedicated to my mother.
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I finish the book for my mother, having it published on my own dime.
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I lose my cousin, a year younger then myself, to cancer
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I realize that my hair is completely white
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I take continuing education classes-hoping to sharpen my mental faculties
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I stop driving, realizing that my eyesight is impared
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I insist on doing my own shopping-not wanting to depend on others
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The beginning stages of memory loss take effect
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I am diagnosed with Breast cancer, which runs in my family
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My husband and I are forced to have a in home nurse for our health
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I go into remission from my cancer after a successful surgery
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The last of my personal friends moves away with family and I have only my husband
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My husband and I refuse to move into a nursing facility, prefering to age in place
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I am told that despite having gone into remission, my cancer is back, and there is nothing to be done.
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My husband passes away suddenly, in his sleep, of a stroke
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I pass away in my bed, no hospitals, with my family around me. Outliving my husband by less then a month.