Poets

I am an identical twin, a daughter, a sister, a mother, a grandmother and a widow.

I married my high school sweetheart, Michael La’Von Casey who I started dating when we were 13. We got married right after graduation. We had our first child while Mike was in boot camp for the Coast Guard.We moved around a lot since Mike was in the military. We were stationed in Hawaii and that is where our second child was born.
After his five years were up, Mike got out of the military and became an Air Traffic Controller in Memphis, TN.
Mike suffered from a bipolar disorder most of his life. It was just something that I had to give into for us to make it through his cycles. I got to where I could tell he was going to go through one. I tried to prevent it before it got big and when it did hit I would try to make things easier on him. Mike chose to ended his life on Dec.13,2002.
It was such a horrific time. Writing my thoughts and fears down on paper seemed to help me cope.

My life growing up as a twin was fantastic! We were little devils growing up getting into everything. We where both ADHD (of course they didn't know that back in the day =) so we wore my mom ragged. When we were younger we meet some identical twin boys who were our age. Mike even mistook Lynn one time for me after we were married. There are so many hysterical stories about us.

We had a brother 18 months older and a sister 23 months younger. I love my sisters and brother. During our fist 3 years of life m..