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Please Don't Say Our Time Is Over

DeAnna had a neighbor that would come over to visit,Sheila. She had a little boy named Eddie. He was half black which DeAnna didn't agree with but she over looked. She lived with a black guy. DeAnna never meet him and didn't really want to. DeAnna and Sheila went to the beach together on the island with the boys. They had a blast. She enjoyed doing things like that with her. DeAnna meet a guy, Jay, on the beach. DeAnna thought her was so cute. He told her he lived in Waycross, about a half hour from Brunswick. DeAnna had been single for quite sometime. So one weekend DeAnna asked Sheila if she would ride with her out to Waycross to try to find him. He had a classic candy apple red Tempest. It looked like a GTO. He had it jacked up in the rear with wide tires. Waycross wasn't very big so she figured she would find him if he was around town. They got there and road around town for awhile. And sure enough she spotted his car. They followed him and pulled him over. He gave her his number to call him sometime. So they began to see each other. They're first date he took her to Jekyll Island to eat. When they got there it had rained earlier so the parking lot had puddles of water all over. Jay picked her up and carried her over the water!!!!!!!!! She couldn't believe it!!!!!!!! How SWEET!!!!!!!!!! They had a killer seafood dinner!!!!! And then a killer night together!!!!!

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Jay would come to stay with her but wanted to stay in Waycross so he got a place of his own. And she would take the kids on the weekends to go stay with him. They favorite song got to 'Boys Of Summer' by Don Henley. They had put Jay & Deb in the back window of his Tempest!!!!!!!! She loved it she thought it was so cool. He really knew how to treat her like a lady. AND MAKE HER HEART MELT!!!!!!!! He almost had her talked into marrying him. EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS LEGALLY STILL MARRIED TO STEVE MARTINO IN CA. She had purposely stayed married to him if he didn't want to pay for the divorce. This way if she EVER EVEN THOUGHT OF GETTING MARRIED EVER AGAIN SHE'D HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT WHILE THE DIVORCE WENT THROUGH. He kept begging her but she just couldn't do it.
One weekend a friend of Jay's was in town and needed a ride back to Waycross so he went with her and the boys. DeAnna had homework to do so she let him drive so she could get her homework done on the way out. They were driving down Altama Ave just going past the college when all the sudden BOOM!!!! Someone had slammed into them in the back end. No one was hurt but it totaled her car!!!!!!!!! Jay came out to pick them up that evening.
DeAnna got a rental and later finally got another car. She still owned the other. Although the body was messed up the engine and everything was still good. So she decided to look for a race car body.
DeAnna didn't know at first that Jay had a bad drug problem. When she meet him he was on probation and had to go to meetings. He'd do good for awhile but end up back on the drugs. He had been thrown back in jail quite the few times. He would write to her from jail and she loved getting the letters from him. He was so romantic!



She found out there was a poetry contest in college. She felt it was a good way to write her feelings down when she had no one to talk to. Or anyone who understood the way she felt. She had loads of poems but only a couple she thought about entering. But she never thought she'd have any chance to win!!!!!!!! Who was she other than just a big mess up in life!!!!!!!!!!
She took a class English 101 and everyone she heard that took it had a hard time passing it. Oh great she thought! She had to have the class. So her first day they had a in class paper to write. A short story which had to be descriptive she thought "good she'd put her talents to work". She loved to write this should be easy! After the paper was wrote they each had to sit in the office with the teacher as he marked the paper. SHE GOT A "D"! What? Not anywhere was the a complete sentence! SHE HAD WROTE A POEM!! He said it was a great poem and she should enter it in the contest. She told him she thought of entering some but didn't think she had a chance! But he talked her into.
AND SHE WON FIRST PLACE WITH THE PAPER SHE GOT A "D" ON!!!! They had a evening when all the writers and photographers who had entered to announce the winners. And her teacher read hers out loud. He just kept looking at her while he read it and kinda smiled knowing he gave her a "D"!
DeAnna was so happy and felt so proud of all that she was doing. But she sat there alone. Everyone else had family or friends around with them. But she had no one there with her. How she wished her dad would of swallowed his pride and accompany her there. Oh well! That's just the way he was! He was so much fun back when he was drinking. She felt that he loved her back then. What was it that has changed so much? She'd tried so hard to be close to him. She longed for him to least hug her. Let her know she loved him. She knew she probably reminded him of her mom so hated her too!! And here he was the one who did what he did to her to make her want to leave!!! She knew how much her mom hated him!! But how she wished her dad and grandparents would be there with her!!!!
Now here she was in college which he never done. And wasn't even drinking and there was never once a word about that. Not even that's nice, or that's good!! How could he be so cold to her. She was trying so hard to raise her boys on her own and everything else in between.