I was named after Erina, a township in New South Wales, Australia.
My father was born there. He met my mother when she was 16 and he was 27, they fell in love and I was conceived. It was then that he revealed that he was already married with two children in Australia. So my mother gave birth to me alone. And did her best to raise me. When I was 13, my mother died of Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. She was just 30 years old. I was taken in by my aunt who was married with four children of her own. My grandparents treated me as an outcast and I never had a bond with them. I always felt that the only reason that my aunt took me in was because my mother asked her to. But all in all she treated me well. And I have fond memories of my time with her. I grew up in Corcaigh, Ireland but was sent to Essex and to the Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School. It was there that I decided that being a Catholic was not my way. I ran away and married my boyfriend I was sixteen he was eighteen. We lived with his family in Coventry, England for a few months, had a baby girl a perfect beautiful baby. She died at age four months of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Our marriage became strained after that, but we managed to become with child again and in 1983 had twin girls, Brenna Colleen and Bridget Cathlene.
Two years later, against the odds we had a second set of twins, Brennan Teague , Bryce Clancy. By this time our marriage was over. I took my children and went home to Ireland. I worked as a seamstress to make ends meet. Their father was good at sending support for the children. But it was a pinch at times.
When Brennan and Bryce were eleven, they went to live with their father and his wife in London. My children are grown and gone now. The boys are in Military, and my girls are both married. Brenna has a wonderful little girl, Briana Darcy who's two and a half who is my light on bad days.
I married a wonderful much older man five years ago, we were married for two and a half years before he passed away from cancer of the prostate. I miss him every day, and I only hope that I made our time together as happy for him as it was for me.
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