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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8561437" data-attributes="member: 23751">I was born in San Francisco and lived my first year on the corner of Haight and Ashbury(70's music central).&nbsp; My father had the biggest light show on the west coast, so he knew and partied with the Grateful Dead, Janice Joplin and others.&nbsp; My parents split and I ended up living with my dad who moved back to rural Michigan after converting to Christianity.&nbsp; We spent a few years living on a farm, then bought a house in town(population 400ish).&nbsp; When I was 13(1983) I went over to a friend's house and saw this strange book that had a red dragon, a unicorn, a centaur, a green thing and a feathered thing on the cover.&nbsp; Intrigued I started to flip through the pages, but my friend's mother said that my dad would have to give me permission before I could learn about a game called Dungeons &amp; Dragons.&nbsp; He refused. Sad panda.About 3 months later my father who was both an alcoholic and drug user at this point had an intervention by his friends.&nbsp; It was agreed that I would go live with my mother in Los Angeles, California.&nbsp; When I got settled in my mother asked me if there were any games I was wanted her to buy for me and I told her Dungeons &amp; Dragons.&nbsp; So we went to The Last Grenadier in Burbank and she bought me the core three books and maybe a module or two.&nbsp; I talked the kid upstairs into playing the game with me and haven't looked back.I spent several years working in retail before going back to school to be a paralegal.&nbsp; After 14 years in that field I got laid off due to Covid downsizing.&nbsp; I initially became a paralegal with the intent to go on to law school and become an attorney, but after seeing the stress that attorneys go through behind the scenes I said &quot;No way!&quot;&nbsp; At the time of my layoff I was pretty bored with legal work and being fortunate enough not to need to go back to work right away, I decided to study to be a real estate agent.&nbsp; I passed the exam late last year and am at this point about a month into my new career.&nbsp; So if you know anyone in the Los Angeles area who wants to buy or sell, message me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8561437, member: 23751"] I was born in San Francisco and lived my first year on the corner of Haight and Ashbury(70's music central). My father had the biggest light show on the west coast, so he knew and partied with the Grateful Dead, Janice Joplin and others. My parents split and I ended up living with my dad who moved back to rural Michigan after converting to Christianity. We spent a few years living on a farm, then bought a house in town(population 400ish). When I was 13(1983) I went over to a friend's house and saw this strange book that had a red dragon, a unicorn, a centaur, a green thing and a feathered thing on the cover. Intrigued I started to flip through the pages, but my friend's mother said that my dad would have to give me permission before I could learn about a game called Dungeons & Dragons. He refused. Sad panda. About 3 months later my father who was both an alcoholic and drug user at this point had an intervention by his friends. It was agreed that I would go live with my mother in Los Angeles, California. When I got settled in my mother asked me if there were any games I was wanted her to buy for me and I told her Dungeons & Dragons. So we went to The Last Grenadier in Burbank and she bought me the core three books and maybe a module or two. I talked the kid upstairs into playing the game with me and haven't looked back. I spent several years working in retail before going back to school to be a paralegal. After 14 years in that field I got laid off due to Covid downsizing. I initially became a paralegal with the intent to go on to law school and become an attorney, but after seeing the stress that attorneys go through behind the scenes I said "No way!" At the time of my layoff I was pretty bored with legal work and being fortunate enough not to need to go back to work right away, I decided to study to be a real estate agent. I passed the exam late last year and am at this point about a month into my new career. So if you know anyone in the Los Angeles area who wants to buy or sell, message me. :P [/QUOTE]

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