Introduction

Just so everyone knows.  This is NOT my story.. its only a part of my story.  I might have mentioned before that it was but its not.  Some say its my testimony, but even that might be a stretch. 

 To tell my story would be to start at the beginning, and frankly, Im not sure Im ready to go there yet.  I want to write about Florida because it was a major event in my life that has changed me the most I think.  I went there as one person and came back a totally different one.  I want to write it down because I feel like people need to know.  I feel like I need to write it down so that I never forget exactly how I felt, how people looked, how life seemed.  Im not worried about forgetting the part of my story im leaving out, because know that even if I wanted to, I could never forget.

There are many things about this time I am not proud of.  Perhaps if I did decide to start at the VERY beginning  you would understand how I got that way, but for now I will just save that for another time. So here it goes.  Im not sure I will stick to it.  That I will ever finish it.  But heres my attempt. 

re·demp·tion   [ri-demp-shuhn]---The act or action of being saved from sin, error, or evil