mark

I started life in ashton under lyne in the north east district of manchester my parents were called margreat and edward and 1 brother called simon i was born on the 6 jan 1979 and christend mark daniel beckett also on this day my merternal grandparents retired to knott end on sea blackpooli was born with a earing impediment and a speech impediment i went to a deaf playgroup for a while then i went to hawthorns speical school in audenshaw manchester and my head teacher had the same name as my uncle who was also a headteacher i attepmed to main stream school but was unsuccesful. then in 1989 the beckett moved on ward and upward to the place that still to this day as a special place in my heart we moved to brookside avenue grotton and not long after my dream of attend main stream school came true and i enterd saddleworth school my best friend from my brookside days was called david stephen miller. i enjoyed saddleworth school because it was my first real school. I enjoyed grotton as it gave me friends and peaple who i connected with for the 1st time in my life growing up i never really my pertanl grandparents and my dads side that much at that point i never felt i missed out on that much. when i did work expernice i cotemplated spending a carer in being a care assaint but became unsure of this and spent the summer of 1995 not knowing what job i was going to take and during my exam year at school my mertanal grandmother became very ill and died the year i finshed school. i eventully found my niche in the charity shops by 1997 life had been going ok for me although id long since lost touch with my 2 best mates david stephen miiller and david taylor. my life was brillant untill 1997 when my world changed forever this was the year of my 18th and on my 18th birthday my mother and pertanl grandfarther both had strokes my mums being very servere and leading to my mum putting on weight losing the left side of her body function properley this in tern lead to my mums carer finshing and then the month after my mertal grandfarther heaqrtbroken at his daughters plight died. a few months went by and my mother and farthers marrige was over and by the september my brother had become a farther and my dad had met my future stepmother andrea and my stepbrother called wayne. At this tikme i was dealing with my own demons of my sexualty. so as christmas approched i made the bold step that in 1998 i would have to leave saddleworth for good a cause of great saddness to me but i left my beloved grotton for rochdale i did bit jobs for a few years. But at the same my last grandparent was losing his fight for life which he sadly did not long after i found my happines in the workplace at wilkinsons(wilko) hardware. around this time my brother married my sis in law who i had worked with before my brother had even met her and my mum married her special friend of over 25 years and my dad married my stepmother.Giving me for the 1st time in my life a younger brother. I started finding my feet but strullng but strulling with debt so to make ends meet wored for my farther for a few hours week in which i began to really know my farther which as it proved later would be a godsend. my brother became farther to another child before his job then took him to where he resides know in huddesfeild which for a die hard oldham fan cant be easy. a few years ago my brother had his long awaited daughter. Last year i started struuging weith my sexualty and in search my need for company had a dallicne with a hiv man and because i wanted love put all my efforts in tohis which i know accpet as wrong.AS the year came to a end my dad and andrea decied to leave the uk for spain my saddleworth era and connctions finshed. when dad emigrated it was the last time i ever saw him alive as i was getting my self on my feet even booked a hliday to see him this easter my farther died and its something which i still struggle with how any one copes with the loss of a parent is beyound me as i have never felt so alone.Me and my brother went out to spain but the spainsh furneral is diffent to the uk and very quickat the moment my friends from work sobia akhtar and yvoone snell and my vert specail friend linda shaw are keeping me togther.And of course my brother who is my rockbut life for this beckett is a very diffrent life to the one that he has ever knowniam still going to spain in october but for a very diffrent reasonsmaybe one dad a film will be made of this becaause ive had a very diffent life