* The Jen Network *

And so our little family of 6 was complete. Our power could only increase! We finally gathered together in a circle of bonding and combined our individual skills and identities into one gestalt being whose sole purpose was to take over the world.

Uhm. yeah. well, maybe not. Our time, it seemed, had not yet come.

Well, it had for our father, who died in 1985. He was only 34. He died of Cardio-Obstructive Pulmonary disease.

After his death, my mother tried to carry on, but she was a house-mom; she'd only been about a year or so out of her parent's home when she met dad.

It was only a short time after his death that she went to pieces and was finally diagnosed as having, among other problems, multiple personality syndrome. She tried to keep on working, but she continuously lost jobs and eventually lost the desire to try after she was raped by a co-worker.

We were on welfare for years, as well as any other aid we could get. We had to sell the house and after that we bounced around from apartment to apartment.

But we managed to survive almost everything (don't ask) and here we stand today - proof that we are standing here today... wait...