When I was in High School I met this girl through my boyfriend Will. I was really jealous of her, she was tall and blonde and skinny and rich. Very soon after I met her I realized that she was just as sweet and funloving as a person could be. She drank a lot and did a lot of drugs but it was the 70's and everyone did, don't let people tell you otherwise.

She was going through a really rough time. she had just moved to Maryland. She was a Navy Brat. Her parents were splitting up. Her Dad was with another woman and made no real attempts to hide it. He was a self indulgent, shallow and self serving kind of guy. His mother had him late in life and he was the golden boy of the family. Naval Academy then the Seals. He never got used to putting others before himself so the kids grew up without feeling as if they had any real value. He and their mom always put dad first. Their mom was obsessed with him. She was so involved in trying to make the marriage work that making her family work was a distant second. The Kids were window dressing really. Their reality was much different than the picture they portrayed. They had the toys but they were virtually orphans. They leaned on each other a lot. I never met siblings who were so close. Having grown up hating my siblings this was a very confusing situation. The Wallace kids were all born within 5 years of each other. To this day I am not sure who is the oldest and what the birth order is. All I know is that Kim is younger than Alice, but not by much.

When we were almost 19 she went to school in Boca Raton. Her dad felt I was a good influence on her and his mother had just inherited a house down there with a garage apartment and basically offered me free room and board as well as assistance in getting into the college if I would try and keep her out of trouble. Going nowhere in my own life I jumped at the chance.
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