I will always be indebted to my mother. She is the one star in my life that will shine forever. She worked so hard to see that we (my sister and I) never wanted for anything. I never understood until in later in life how hard that must have been for her, making ends meet, while still providing for us. Things were always tight and there never was enough to go around, but as children we would have never know it because she worked so hard to make it seem perfect. To us, it was. In 1978, my mother met my future stepfather, Roger at a Ronnie McDowell concert. They dated almost 4 years before deciding to marry on July 16, 1982..

OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS HAPPENING

Rocky, Carrie and The Omen were movies showing in 1976. They would both become best-sellers

The first child delivered by IVF (In-vitro fertilization) was delivered in England in 1978

Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980

1982 was one of the strongest El'Nino's in the past 100 years