Despite being born in 2000, 1971 is when my life had began. Dennis Hickl married my grandmother Donna Hickl. Together my Nonna and Papa had begun their lives by having three beautiful children, two girls and one boy. They never thought that come October 2000 their life would change to such an extreme, but we will go deeper into that story a little down the road. The middle of their three children was my mother Jordan Ann Hickl. My mother was a beautiful young girl when she was growing up. She had big blue eyes and a heart of gold. At the time she was seventeen and going to school to play softball and get her high school degree. In high school she met my father which at the time seemed like a mistake in my grandparents eyes. They met 1995 and dated for 5 years until one day they ended up conceiving me. This is when so many lives were altered. After becoming pregnant with a child her and her high school lover had finally separated and she ended up back in the house of her parents for a while. Jordan had dated man after man without finding…show more content… One night she came home late and heard my sniffles. She came into my room and grabbed me by the shoulders. She held me in her arms for the first time in a very long time. Up until this point my 35 year old mother was clueless to the fact that she had caused so much pain because she thought she was doing the perfect thing by having my grandparents taking care of me. Although I did have two loving people in my life I still longed for my mother. I told her exactly what was wrong. I screamed and yelled and sobbed until I was blue in the face. Tears were running down her face by the time our conversation was over. She apologized and her heart hurt along with mine. No man needed to be in her life right this moment for her to be happy because she had me and her parents love until the right person comes
