brent hamilton blackstone pg6

for several years all i really did was exercise and party(this was after becoming disabled), i did attempt going back to osu(newark) for awhile but the walking was pretty difficult, i soon tired of it. i think it was in 1982 brad(back from portugal), brad's girlfriend, luisa, and i rented an apartment at forest hills just outside of newark, it was alright i spent a great deal of time partying, i definitely wasn't a very good handicapper unemployed dude. i lived with brad and luisa till the spring of 1983 then i finally got a job at the licking county board on mental retardation and developmental disabilities and moved into an apartment in newark. the job was as a resident advisor at a group home taking care of a group of retarded guys, physically it was easy, but really not my cup of tea. later i met gini fell in love and got married, 9 months later aaron michael jeremiah was born, i was there for his birth and i swear when he arrived he smiled at me, no kidding. several weeks later mom said we could move into the house in foster manor in thornville, so we did. i quit the group home job and became a full time dad, i soon was required(because of my disability), to retake the driving test, because of my double vision i failed. home life was good, we didn't have much money, but we seemed to make it. in the early 1990's dad died of cancer while living in florida. i failed to mention that my mom and dad divorced in 1984,i really don't know exactly why but at the time my mom became mentally unstable, in the end she did end up with the house and i ended up back in thornville.i've always loved thornville, at least the way it used to be, when it was more of a farming community with the elevator and hardware and older folks who at one time were farmers, now the elevator has been sold and bulldozed out of existence the hardware is still around but who knows what it is this week, all the older folks have died off and thornville has become a stick in the butt Granville(hoity toity),but i guess you can't stop change.