It's Kalisa (Not Kalissa)

I'm going to pause now to ask you: What more do you want to know? 

Now that I've given you an overview of my story, Ask Me Anything. 

What questions do you have?

Where are there gaps?

What did I skip over...leave out...or gloss over?

Where do you need DETAILS?

I went out with Chip on New Years Eve, 1992. As we danced at midnight, I realized, "I love this guy." 

The next morning I tested positive on a pee stick. 

I always thought it happened in that order for a reason. That Life was telling me something. 

I called him to come ov...

My new roommate Susan had just graduated from Memphis State but was still working at Chili's with us. She was an only child, and when she moved out with me it was her first venture out on her own. Like Shelley's parents back in Long Beach, Susan's parents took me in as...

Some time around 1988 I finally broke up with Casey for good and moved into a house with my brother, who had now graduated high school and moved to Memphis. I was working as the assistant to the sales managers at a car dealership, which meant I sat up on the sales desk...

My "gap year" between high school and when I started community college, Shelley and I became obsessed with what we referred to as "Rude Boys" - long hair, leather jackets, listening to hard rock, smoking weed, riding motorcycles. So John Bender, basically. And we fanci...