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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Queen_Dopplepopolis" data-source="post: 2460540" data-attributes="member: 14323">I had this incredibly long post written up about my life and who I have become, but then I realized just how much it was like a bad Lifetime movie - so I'm retyping and editing and, hopefully, it'll be much shorter and less depressing!The first 15 years of my life were terrible.  My parents were drug addicts and alcoholics.  They divorced when I was 10 and I spent 5 years dodging my mother's drug problems and abusive boyfriends.  I was raped, attempted to kill myself, and eventually diagnosed with bipolar.My dad cleaned up, became very successful, but the backwards South Dakota court system would never let me go live in his stable, loving home.But then something (well, two somethings) amazing happened: I had a religious awakening and became a Christian and I joined the debate team.  The combination of these two things helped me to remove myself emotionally and phsically from the horrible home that I lived in and I was able to become the happy, bubbling Liz that I am today.At 17, I met the love of my life.  At 18 we were engaged, and at 19 we were married (he was 22 when we tied the knot).  Many of you know him as The Universe, I know him as Kennon.  He means the world to me.  People say we're too young, but I don't listen.We moved away from small-town South Dakota just before we got married to experience the "big city".  We are learning *a lot* here in the DC Metro area.I love pink, unicorns, and Dippin' Dots.I'm finishing up my BA in History at American University and want to be a high school history teacher.  Yay!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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