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• Name: Ryan Wilson
• Height: 5'10"
• Hair Color: Brown
• Eye Color: Hazel
• Place of Birth: Gainesville, GA, USA
• Siblings: 6 divided as follows: 1 full blood, 3 half, and 2 step
• Marital status: Single
• Occupation: Currently working as a Restaurant Server

Bio

I was born in Gainesville, GA on October 18, 1975 at 8:30 am. My parents divorced two years later and my sister and I lived with my mother as my father had moved to California.

My mother married an abusive alcoholic drug addict and gave custody of me over to my father two years afterwards. My sister had been given to him a year earlier. As a result, at the physical age of four years, I was at the mental age of four months due to the amount of abuse and neglect I recieved.

At the time, my mother had moved to Gainesville, Texas. Our father lived in Norwalk, California. I think I can safely say he did a good job getting me up to par with my peers. My sister and I lived with him for four years until our mother got her life straightened out and re-married. At that time, custody was returned to our mother.

One would think having their children being physically abused by a spouse would make them want to be more cautious in their next relationship. Unfortunately, this wasn't so. My second stepfather, who was a sheriff's deputy and later a sheriff, took it a step further. For the next four years, we lived with my mother and second stepfather in Muleshoe, Texas and Junction, Texas until I decided to move back to California to live with my dad. My sister followed a year later.

I lived with my dad until I graduated from North Hall High School in Gainesville, GA where we moved in the summer before my senior year. My sister graduated in California the year previously and briefly returned to Texas before entering the Army. Aside from moving to a new state and school, my senior year went well until graduation. Two weeks before I graduated, my stepfather murdered my mother and then committed suicide. Two weeks after graduation, my father and stepmother announced their divorce.

At that point in time, with my head more than a bit muddled, I decided to return to California with my stepmother to help with my younger siblings. I lived in Norwalk, CA for three years before moving to Devine, Texas to be closer to my sister. I lived there for another two years before moving back to Gainesville, GA. Other than a 9-month stay in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, I've lived in Georgia ever since (even if I have moved about within the state more than I've wanted).

I currently reside in Norcross, Georgia. I am a Patient Care Technician turned Construction worker turned Waiter for the time being. My life is in a state of flux at the moment (as it always seems to be) and I am trying to figure out what to do with it. Growing up, I have been Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian.

Now, as an adult, I'm Agnostic and into BDSM. Go figure.

Interests

Places of interest I've enjoyed visiting include the Sierra Nevada, Carlsbad Caverns, Lake Lanier, the San Antonio Riverwalk, Stone Mountain, and Boston Harbor.

My interests include soccer and tennis. I am the proud owner of a gas-guzzling, repair-needing 1997 Isuzu Rodeo. I actually watch M*A*S*H and Gunsmoke. I've been a long time reader of the X-Men comics published by Marvel Comics.

I recently read a book titled "Apathy and Other Small Victories" written by Paul Neilan. It's of a work of art! Okay, maybe not so much, but it is hysterical and one of the best pieces of 'slacker fiction' I've read to date - along with Dean Koontz' supernatural "Odd Thomas". I highly suggest checking them both out and wouldn't mind having other 'slacker fiction' titles thrown my way.

I also enjoy immersing myself in a good forensic fiction novel. My favorite authors in this category include James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, and Kathy Reichs (Bones).

And for some of the best mind-numbing, mind-boggling, mind-jumbling crime drama ever written I suggest seriously checking out the works of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

I am impatiently waiting for the movie adaptation of Running With Scissors to come to theatres in this town. Augusten Burroughs is my hero. Hurry up already! Along with Burroughs, I enjoy authors such as Dave Pelzer, David Sedaris, and Chuck Palahniuk.

Articles of Interest

Coffee - breakfast of champions, nuff said

Limbo - What can I say? Limbo is limbo. That in-between, unsure place of uncertainty in one's life. The article I linked to addresses the 'metaphysical' realm of Limbo which helps me to introduce a favorite interest of mine. A good ghost story. Many people my age remember the slasher flicks of yesteryear and enjoy them gleefully. I do too but I'd much rather watch or read about a good haunting.

Nature - As the article clearly presents, I like nature in all its many meanings. Kudos to those who work on this one. I'm far from being an expert but I do maintain an interest in plants, insects, and life in general.

Zombies - what we should all avoid becoming...or not

Favorite TV Series

• • okay, so I like my television dramas in the form of escapism. i think i'm allowed this one little thing. is there a problem with that?  :)

• Angel
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Charmed
• Doctor Who
• Friday the 13th: the Series
• Battlestar Galactica
• Heroes
• LOST
• Roswell
• Smallville
• Supernatural
• The X-Files
• The 4400

Something Personal

I am a CSA survivor and do what I can to heighten the awareness of such abuse. Due to the abuse (which I recieved from my second stepfather), I have flashbacks, am considered a borderline personality, and must take antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication. I'm not ashamed to admit any of this, It wasn't my fault.

Cool Quotes "How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand: there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend; some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold." - LoTR: The Return of the King "It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer." - Tori Amos "Someone was hurt before you.....beaten before you; humiliated before you; raped before you; yet someone survived." - Maya Angelou "Perilous times, difficult circumstances, tenuous situations, and heartrending trials form the crucible in which hope is tested, refined, purified, and proven. When everything natural tells us to give up and give in, hope springs from the eternal and tells us to hang in and hang on." - Johnnette Benkovic "The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness." - John Cheever "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi “These experiences ... leave us with a choice, a choice to use our experiences to enlighten and empower and change people’s lives, and that is a choice I am getting behind.” - Teri Hatcher "I believe in myself. I gain courage, strength, and confidence each time I stop and look fear in the face. I must do that which I think I cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt "I am not what happened to me. I am still pure and beautiful." - Carlos Santana

Links of Interest

Male Survivor

CASA

Human Rights Campaign

Good Search

Skeptic's Dictionary

Religious Tolerance