As A Child Growing Up   Gracie Bargo   © Copyright 2002 by Gracie Bargo

            I was born in Harlan County December tenth of 1978 as the fourth child to Betty, Sonny, here I am the third daughter they had and one son, growing up being the baby of the family wasn't to much fun seemed like the others constantly found a reason to pick on me, my other two sisters and I didn't get alone to good at all but my brother he always stuck up for me he was always on my side growing up, sure we had our good times but as I can remember they were more bad than good, they all ways would say I got my way with everything but not true I had my share of whippings also, but for some reason my sisters couldn't see me as being there sister though.
        So as time went own seems like things was just getting worse for me will I thought so anyway, But being the baby of two sisters and one brother maybe I did want everything to go there way it was really my way or I wasn't going to play at with them, so after a while they would do it my way, and I just ate that up and yes if I have to say so my self I was a brat.
        Well times were changing we was older and still fighting a lot seems like us being in our teens things was hitting up, I was stuck at home the others going out with boys and here I am not old enough to go out, I was feeling left out of everything, mom and dad would tell me though you will have your turn Gracie, but still that was no good for me, when my sisters would get home all I would do was pick on them and then I would end up getting my hair pulled by them or running to the bathroom and locking the door so they wouldn't get me and I would actually set in the bathroom and laugh boy I look back on that and laugh.
        Here I am know old enough to start talking to boys myself and I thought all right its my turn know but for some reason I didn't want no one but I would go to the movies and come home go to my room and had a journal that I wrote everything in my whole life would go into this book and it was like all my hopes and dreams was in this book that I kelp so dear to my heart I mean that everything happened to me went into this book my dreams that I would have and just what the day would bring,
        I am fourteen know and I had meet some boys but I just couldn't find myself getting to like just one, I have always growing up just like meeting people and talking and just sharing my thoughts and dreams with them I couldn't understand here I am I can talk know to boys but I donut want to, and how jealous I would be of my sisters when I was smaller I took it as a laugh and pushed it a side, all growing up in school I was a cheerleader and as my sisters would call me miss perfect and boy would that make me mad but o well I learnt to live with it.
        Ok here my oldest sister has feel in love and soon to be married, I didn't like that one bet me and her boyfriend didn't get alone at all, I always found ways to really make him made at me, October rolls around and they have this big church wedding and I am crying my big sis is leaving me and all those memories of us growing up they just keep coming in my mind one after another and those tears that are coming from my eyes some to be happy tears seems like all our life all we did was fight and fuss and to me it felt like we had just threw our sister hood away by being jealous of one other, and at this time I am happy for her and for the first time I look at her and tell her I love her and all those little fuses we had growing up just mad us love each other more.
        So time pass on she moves away to Tenn. and all that was left was my other sister and brother and me and for some strange reason my other sister and I was doing things together we had our fuses but not as much, she had her friends and I again would get jealous of her friends because she wasn't spending the time with me, I felt alone it was like I was in a dark hole and looking to find a friend and they wasn't there and at this time I knew that I had to change I had to get out, I had to meet people and open up.
       So years and days went bye I had found me someone I really loved I was fifteen and he was thirty four, my sister didn't like that ideal at all but we soon get married, and my husband has a twin brother and a year after we are married, my sister and his brother gets married oh did that make me mad, here we was enemies growing up and know we are married to twin brothers it felt so strange, and seemed like the older we got the more of  best friends we came we looked back at all those fuses and laugh at each other, my older sister that lives in Tenn. we are sisters and best friends never dreamed that we would be this close in life, and brother is married has his own family and we are all doing so good we love each other very much were always there for each other know matter how many miles we live from one another were there know matter what.
         So today our parents are proud grand parents of four grand children and two step grand children  we are as close as we can be and love each other very much, sure we look back all of us do and laugh at the pass and even sometimes cry over the stupid stuff we done as growing up but all four of us has came to the conclusion that we were children and children does some pretty nasty things, but I have to say it has brought us closer and never in a million years would I have thought that we would be like we are today,
        Life is good for us all four we married people that we really love and we have children of our own know, we can see us in them to we set at moms and she will say my grand baby's put me back to were you all was little. We all love life today and enjoys being around each other cant wait for week ends so we can spend them with each other.
 
 

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