"To Be Me?"
Written on February 13th, 2018
By Doctor Ricky 1024
<*>C.FanStory 2018<*>

"When I was only three...
"I didn't quite know yet...
"Know yet what I wanted to be?"
"And, when I turned age four...
"I thought perhaps there is more?"
...
"At the age of five, things looked up and my 'Me' came alive!"
"And then at age six...
"I wanted to be a Magician with a bag of Magical Tricks!"
...
"At age seven...
"II wanted to be like my Great, Grand, Daddy and be an Angel from Heaven!"
"At the age of only eight..
"I wanted to be a superhero like Jason...
"From The movie...
"Jason and The *Argonauts!"
"And, I thought that was great but a little later at age nine...
"I changed my mind and wanted to be more...
"More Special...
"A One-of-a-Kind!"
...
"So, at the age of Ten... "I thought back again and wondered if these things that I wanted to be...
"Were just pretend?"
"So, at the age of Eleven, I thought hard and here's what I came up with and thought that I wanted to become an Astronaut?"
"But, at age Twelve...
"I changed my mind again to a Fireman... "Then a Policeman."
...
"At the age of Thirteen and as a teenager...
"I got real serious and mean and wanted to be my favorite character of Halloween?"
"A Monster that was scary and mean!"
...
"Now at the age of Fourteen, Fifthteen, Sixteen, and Seventeen...
"I changed again my friend?"
"And, I wanted to be a Man of Medicine...
"A Surgeon."

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"As I got older, I supervised and managed a Supermarket."
"And, as the many years went bye...
"I helped build a Supermarket Chain."
(Three Foodtowns)
"And, I thought that that was what I wanted and was bound to be?"
"Manage many departments but get very little in return?"
...
"But, after Thirty Six Years of Misery and the loss of my only Son Jason and only eight, months, later...
"The loss of my wife Carolyn...
...
"I had an epiphany to write"
"And, to be a writer...
"Perhaps, a Poet of Laureate...
"Children's Author...
"A Novelist?"
"And, share my many Ideas and Views that haunt me to this very day...
"But, sometimes as I write and share these many views and thoughts and ideas you see...
"I realize there's more than all of before and realize that what's most important...
"Important of all...
"Is just...
"To Be Me!"
Approximate Word Count: 420.