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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Puppy Kicker" data-source="post: 1694712" data-attributes="member: 20284">Devin Cole Character BackgroundThe following is the character background presented by Devin's owner.Devin Cole Character BackgroundDevin Cole was born in southern California on the twelfth day of February in 1982.  His mother, Susan, and father, John, lived the perfect American life in suburbia.  His father was a young banker and his mother lived quietly at home raising their infant son.  Three days after his third birthday Devin’s mother received a call telling her of her husband’s tragic death due to an accident during a business trip.  Devin’s father was in a small prop plane that went down somewhere in the mountains of Colorado.  The bodies of his father and his father’s two friends were never found.  Devin’s father had gone to Colorado to look into a small aviation firm his bank was considering financially backing.Because the accident was ruled to have not happened “on the clock” the bank was ruled not liable for the death and other than money that just barely got them free of a few failed investments Susan had nothing.Devin’s mother seemed lost to all her friends during the next few months.  Her parents took her and her child Devin in to help her get through her grief.  Devin’s mother slowly began to come back to her senses and about a year later she took a job at a little restaurant to make money.  She had dreams of getting her own place with Devin and again getting out from under her parents wing.  Susan gained a few new friends at her new job and quickly found herself unfit to raise a young boy.  Her partying, drinking, and minor drug use nearly got so out of hand that her parents considered throwing her out of their house and adopting Devin themselves. It was then that Susan met a young man in the army.  He was perfect for her and her young son Devin.  She was soon clean and after a very short courtship they had their own place living in housing provided by the army.  The housing was not great but they had food a roof and love and they were again happy. A few months later Susan’s husband received orders to transfer to Fort Eustis, a little base in Virginia.  When Devin was 10 Susan gave birth to her second child, a little girl they named Lisa.  Life went on relatively normal until Devin was about 16 years old.  It was then that his mother developed a rare muscle disease.  This only added to a failing relationship between Susan and her husband and within months of her diagnosis Devin’s step-father left to move closer to his family back in California.  Susan and her two children were again alone.  Susan, much too weak to work, relied on Devin to provide for her and his sister.  Thankfully the medical bills were still mostly being paid by Devin’s step-father’s insurance plan and Susan received a small sum of child support each month from Lisa's father, but the monthly bills and food still fell mostly to Devin. Work and school began to get to be too much for the young junior so he was forced to give up sports just weeks before he was due to receive his varsity letters.Devin worked up until the day he graduated high school and maintained decent grades.  He has never had much of a social life, for his mother needed almost 24 hour care and the bills for the apartment, his sister, and mother demanded that work come second only to the care of his dieing mother and young sister.On a rainy Tuesday, June 12, 2001 Susan passed away.  Devin fought hard in court to retain custody of his sister fighting even her father for custody of Lisa.  He won strangely and has had her ever since.  His job in construction is a far stretch from his dreams of being a doctor or lawyer but this dreamer has been busy with work and home life rebuilding the area since a hurricane in 2003.  Work is just finally slowing down for Devin and he is terrified for the overtime he was getting on the job was the only thing keeping the bills paid and his sister safe and off the streets.  Once already Devin has had to sell almost more then he owns to provide food in the slow winters and he doesn’t want to feel that pinch in this summer.  Lisa is nearing her 12th birthday and he desperately wants to give her the party of her dreams…he needs help.</blockquote>

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