About Me: Female, 55, East Lyme, CT, member since Mar 2010
I'm the single mother of one son who is now 20 and still living at home.
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My life was full of adventure up until I became a single mother. My wanderlust started in high school, when I was an exchange student to that exotic country of Canada, where I learned another language, eh?
My background is accounting and finance and I started my work career in Hartford as an intern and then moved to Boston for a few years. I also spent a few years working for a commodity broker in New Orleans before heading to New York to work on Wall Street when the markets were going crazy. I had some long stints in both Chicago and San Francisco.
Being a fat cat on Wall Street meant I could afford nice vacations and I met someone in Antigua and we had a 3 year long distance relationship. When we made a baby, we decided that I would move to Antigua and live on board a classics yacht. Unfortunately, the relationship included domestic violence, so in 1996, I took my son and two bags and started life over in my home town.
I've devoted my life to working for nonprofit organizations and raising my son. He's ADHD and I am finding these past two years the most challenging ones yet in terms of parenthood.
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