Life revolves around relationships; with yourself and with those around you. My closest relationships are with my family, my chidren, my friends, and of coarse...Luke. He is pivital in so much of what has happened in my life up until now. Wow, I have so much to share about that. xoxo
When I was 19 I moved from Forest Lake, MN, near the Twin Cities, to a little tourist town in Minnesota's lake country; Park Rapids. It's probably not a place most 19 year olds want to move just out of school. There were two reasons I moved there.
I have been boy crazy my entire life. My first crush was on Mark, the son of my mom's best friend from her days in Manhattan Beach, CA. I was 5. I didn't just have a crush...I was in love, enamoured, beside myself infatuated with this 12 year old blonde, blue-eyed, surfer type. He even gave me a real starfish! Needless to say for those who know me, he was the first of many. It's really too bad it didn't work out. Last I knew he worked for Microsoft. :)
Anyway, where I'm going with this is that I moved to Park Rapids because of a boy, and another reason, but had the boy not been an issue I probably would have stayed in the Twin Cities. The issue was that I had left him. I left the relationship, moved back home while I finished cosmetology school, and eventually packed up and headed north about 200 miles. The irony in it all? Park Rapids is that boy's home town! He actually still lives in the Twin Cities, I believe, happily without me. :)
