Date: 6/11/96
Subject: as promised....
From: Marvin
... Normally, what I am going to share I have not volunteered except to my close friends, but since next year, or really any time, if i catch any of you on the flip side, I want to make sure you know that I sincerely feel pretty damn good about every one in this whole dorm. So, I am sharing something as a token of friendship--Rinc '96 will never leave me.
This has been one amazing year. I am not sure if you guys met the person who I thought I was going to show you. Let me explain. On the third day of Frosh Orientation (remember that?) I found out that my girlfriend at home was pregnant. It basically destroyed me. Anyway, fall quarter had a sort of tinge to it of extreme personal conflict that I don't necessarily like to remember, but really can't forget...
Winter quarter, once again, was full of tough times. My first son, Tyler Chadwick Nelson, was born on February 11. ... I was pushing for adoption as much as I could, but Millie would have no part of it. ... I began the first child support payment of my life. Responsibilities that I never in my life would have imagined began to pile up….I had made the heart-wrenching decision that I was not ready to be a father.
Spring quarter and Yolanda brought down a whole new set of priority mixes. Then I truly felt like this year couldn't get any more insane. I had experienced the life cycle a little closer than I had wished.
…. There is a good chance, and I think it's almost certain, that I have some form of Manic Depressive Disorder, passed on from my mother. It is not fully expressed nor is it terribly noticeable, except to me, but its effects certainly are felt.....
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