I have lived the last nearly nine years of my life in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Ever heard of the place? Probably not. It did win "The Best Place to Raise a Family" by Readers Digest like five years ago, my mother insists on telling everyone this. It also is considered the Brat, aka the disgusting processed sausage product, capitol of the world. What a claim to fame? To those who don't know it it is exactly an hour between Green Bay (home of the Green Bay Packers) and Milwaukee (home of Jeffrey Dahmer). Sheboygan is pretty much your basic Wisconsin city. We have a small mall (it doesn't even have a Gap) an Applebees(our main chain restaurant) and a bunch of factories. Don't get me wrong I actually don't mind the city. But I am sort of an outcast. The typical Sheboygan family includes two parents and a son and a daughter and they all live in a subdivision. Both Mom and Dad work long hours at a factory to provide the kids with their every desire but aren't really there for them. Then when the children grow up and get to be my age they will go one of two ways. They either are so gone by their eighteenth birthday at least an hour out of town to a University where they will party their next four years. Or they have a child. If they had a child they are raising it by themselves while trying to support it by working at a local factory. The teen pregnancy rate is so very high here. And it's not a type of town where people then get married and everything is then hunky~dory. Their is a great population of fatherless children. It is no wonder I have given up on men, at least or especially Sheboygan ones.

I on the other hand are from a family of six kids . My mom was a stay at home and my dad had a good job as a computer networker. I didn't have any desire to go away to school and I don't have a child. It's funny to appear somewhat normal and be an outcast.