This assignment was to write a 350-word summary of my life. Include the most important things that have happened and things that interest me the most.

I was born on April 3, 1981. I was my parent's first child. We lived in McKee City at the time. My dad worked in Atlantic City and my mom ran an in-home child care service, so I was never really the only child. later we moved to Northfield, then finally to our house in Mays Landing in about 1984. We still live there today.

In about 1985, my life began to rapidly change. The first of a series of events was my accident with my finger. I had been standing in the back doorway of my garage with the wind blew the door shut, trapping the middle finger of my left hand in the door. I pulled it out, saw all of the blood, and began screaming. My parents got me into the house and badnaged my hand to stop the bleeding. My mom took a peek to see how bady I was hurt, and realized that part of my finger was not there. They called the ambulance, and my Dad went out in the garage and found the end of my finger. He put it in the freezer and gave it to the paramedics when they arrived. I was taken to the hospital, and after surgery, my finger was sewn back on. NO one was sure if it was going to reattach or not. A miracle happened and it did. My finger now has feeling and functions fine. The only way you can tell that something was wrong with it is the fact that it's slightly deformed now.

When my parents told me that we were having a baby, I thought that it was the best. Jeremy was born in December of 1986. We are very close and usually get along pretty well. We have a lot of fun together, even though there's an age difference of 5 years. I watch out for him like a second mother, but I have the tendency to spoil him.

Now I'm in college. I enjoy commuting in my car. I've just joined the paper and I'm making some great friends.