Summer of 2000

My sister & I "moved" to RI the summer after C & I got engaged because our parents were in the middle of a divorce & we wanted nothing to do with that!!

I worked at a horse farm, C worked in a daycare center, P worked at a country club as a waitress. C & I lived in his great-grandmother's house, fixing it up a tid bit so the family could sell it in the fall. P lived with C's parents in C's room.

Everything seemed to be going well - which had been a worry since neither of us had lived together when not at college. We hosted a 4th of July party for all of his family & friends since we were living in Bristol, home of the oldest 4th of July parade in the country (or so they told me).

At the end of the summer I left RI for my final year of college in VT. C stayed in RI continuing to work at the daycare center & doing his military time for the national guard.