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Hello, and welcome...


My bio:

My name is Mattie Crouch, and I am currently 18 years old.

The Beginning:
I was born at University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona on
January 6, 1989. When I came out I wasn't the average screaming pink
infant. In fact I was grim, lifeless, purple and blue, and nearly dead.
Thankfully though, the doctors were able to literally bring me back to
life. I was a rather large baby weighing a little over 8 pounds at
birth. I believe this was the result of my mother being severely
diabetic during her pregnancy with me, and having to eat so much so many
times a day. For my first few years of my life I grew well accustomed
to the hospital (although I'd still scream my head off every time I had
to be weighed). On top of a rough start, I was a breathe holder; every
time I would get excited or upset I would hold my breathe, so long that
I would turn blue. Of course the doctors wanted to do tests on me for
it (but my mom wouldn't allow it) and people didn't want to babysit me;
I eventually just grew out of it. Then also at the age of 10mo. old I
stopped growing. I would eat perfectly well, in fact I ate A LOT, I
just wouldn't grow nor gain weight. In result I had to visit the
hospital about every two weeks for tests, then every month..etc. At the
age of 1 year, I was only 27 inches tall and 17lbs. Talk about tiny,
heh. To my knowledge from what I've been told, this went on until I was
about 4 years old. Honestly, I'm not quite sure when I did start
growing again, but I do know I was one TINY kindergartner.

My family:
My mother, Deborah, and father, William were married after my birth
on August 15, 1990 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I have three wonderful sisters
and one loving brother: Emily (34) , Rebekah (33), Franklin (27) and
Luciellen (23); none of which are my full blooded siblings, but I don't
look down upon that at all. I ignore it really... Growing up I spent
most of my time being babysat by Emily and Rebekah. Soon Emily went
away and Rebekah eventually moved out, so then I mostly was around
Franklin and Luci. Of course we've had our quarrels, but now that we're
grown up we are as close as ever.

Growing up:
I grew up in the center of Tucson in an average sized house in a
fairly decent neighborhood near the Davis-Monthan Airforce Base. I
would often visit and play with my best friend, Kerri: whose mother was
my mother's best friend and only lived about 5 minutes away.
I attended Bonillas B.C.M.S. (Basic Curriculum Magnet School) for
kindergarten through 5th grade. These years on the side of playing with
Kerri, I aquired another best friend in kindergarten, Stephanie, and
spent much of my time with her as well. After 5th grade I started
middle school at Booth-Fickett Magnet School with Steph' for 6th, 7th,
and the first half of 8th grade.
Now, there's a lot of cryptic memories that linger in my childhood
that I don't want to mention. Let's just make it simple and say that
things got to the worst at home and I couldn't take it any more so I
stepped up and said something. Soon afterwards we had a family
intervention and found that the best interests for me were to get away
and live with Rebekah and her family (by this time Bekah had married her
second husband with his two daughters and had two boys with him), so
that's what happened. In the beginning of February of 2003 I moved in
with them in Sahuarita, Arizona (about 45 min. drive south of Tucson)
and finished out my 8th grade year at Sahuarita Middle School. During
this time my parents went through a separation. My mom and Franklin
moved into an apartment together and my dad stayed at the old house
until June. On June 1st my dad and I moved into an apartment in Green
Valley, Arizona (about a 7 min. drive from Sahuarita) and for the first
three quarters of my freshman year I attended Sahuarita High School.
During this time I met my third best friend, Mayra. We spent our
lunches together mostly and shared an immense amount of things in
common; even though we appeared to be so different.

A tragedy:
In late March of 2004 my grandpa (of my dad's side) had a heart
attack and then died a few days later just before the doctors tried to
put shunts into his legs. My dad went to Victoria, Texas (where he, my
grandma, and two uncles live) to stay with him during all of this, and
then to attend his funeral. This caused him to miss two weeks of work
and when he returned he only was there two days until he fell seriously
ill with a stomach virus. When he went to call into work he was
informed that he no longer had a job. Well now, with wanting to move to
Victoria over the summer to be closer to his family already in mind,
this opened up the opportunity. So I had to bid a long and depressing
fairwell to those close to me and pack up.

Culture Shock:
Living in the desert all my life you can only imagine what a
culture shock it was for me to move to the south east side of Texas.
Upon arriving I couldn't help but tease my dad about the differences
such as: "What's that green stuff popping out of the ground every
where?? Why are there so many trees?? What's up with this moisture in
the air?? And what's the wet stuff in the river beds?!" Hahaha yeah,
see for those who don't know let me clue you in a bit. In Tucson,
Sahuarita, and Green Valley you don't find green lucious grass every
where except on golf ranges and some parks if you're lucky. Every where
is pretty much dirt, rocks, cacti, Palo Verde trees, ocotillos, lovely
100+ dry heat, dry river beds, and tumble weeds - yes those things ARE
real. So going from that to this humid, grassy, green place with the
Guadalupe river running through it was really strange for me and took a
lot of getting used to. Even still I despise the humidity and can
hardly cope with it. Any way, so we moved in around April 1, 2004 with
my grandma and two uncles. I soon started attending Memorial High
School at the Stroman campus, I finished the last bit of my freshman
year and completed my sophmore year there. In late November of 2004 my
dad and I finally moved out of my grandma's house and got an apartment
in which we still are in today. After my sophmore year I moved up to
the Senior campus and spent the first half of my Junior year there.
Despite being a straight "A" honor roll student in NHS and JCL, in
February 2006 I had my dad sign me out of Memorial High for personal
reasons. I soon afterwards enrolled for GED preparation classes and
obtained my GED in late March. Since then I haven't been doing much
except enjoying my time away from school while I can. I was working at Dairy Queen on Redriver for about 7mo. before I moved temporarily with my boyfriend (at the time) to West Houston. I lived there for 3-4 until finally I got tired of him stealing money from me and drowning me in debt. About a month ago I moved back to Victoria and am currently looking for a job so I can get myself out of the hole my ex has put me in.

My interests:
Things I love...
-Being with my friends
-Photography and Photoshop
-Writing (obviously)
-Drawing
-Boogie Boarding (also known as body surfing)
-Roller Coasters!!!
-Music
-and pretty much anything else that comes around I'm up for

I plan on updating this as much as possible in the future...