I'm so glad that I found this site. My story begins in Harlan County, Kentucky, where what I call the mountain mentality still exists today. My mother, white, had an affair with my father (black) and thus I was borne. Sounds simple huh, well fast-forward six years to the year 1986. June 1986 to be exact. My father, who is 13 year younger than my mother, broke into our second story apartment and killed my mother, but in the process he put me (mixed and my older sister Debbie, (white) in the intensive care for two weeks. After being in the hospital for two weeks my aunt decided to send me, alone to a Children's Home, in order to spare the family any more shame. But, in the midst of all this God had a wonderful plan. I lived in the children's home for 13 years, usually the only child of any type of color. I will say this, I had good food, good clothes, and education and at times felt loved. But I never felt accepted. No matter where we went I was always told I was beautiful, but I never felt that way. I graduated from high-school in 1997, and went to college immediately. During my first semester, (actually two weeks into the semester) I met my future husband, Jeff. Jeff is mixed/biracial, also. He and I grew up some twenty minutes from each other, longing for someone to understand why our hair looked the way it did, and why we tanned! Thank God for miracles. Now, some three years later, I will graduate next spring with a degree in Broadcast News. I'm currently interning at a local television station and I compete in beauty pageants despite my childhood insecurities of 'nappy hair, big-lips, and odd-features.' Jeff and I work extensively with biracial children in the hopes that we can ease the difficulty of growing up in a color conscience America. I'm so excited about my life with another biracial person and I wish the best to other biracial couples. It is a welcomed feeling to know that someone else know's the feeling of not being accepted, but being the best of both! Jeff is currently in law-school and is working at a firm in Louisville!

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