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Peggy Stetson Alcorn

After high school I was too young to get a job, so I went to secretarial school, which did turn out to be a good thing, with the advent of computers. I married Fred Alcorn and it was a mess. I had one daughter, Lee. I never should have done it, so after three years I divorced him, and got a job at a tiny start-up in Tewksbury called Wang Laboratories (later just Wang, Inc.) and I stayed there working my way up for about 24 years ending as Senior Director of Financial Reporting, reporting to the vice-chairman of the Board.

While at Wang, one of my co-workers, an ex-helicopter pilot raved about his two weeks flying every year and talked me into taking flying lessons. They kind of trick you by never showing you a book for the first five lesson package. After I bought the entire package, because I loved it, they brought out a stack of books. There seemed to be no end of things to learn before you can fly alone, but anyone who knows me knows that is not a problem.

I found flying equally exhilarating, and terrifying. On my first flight away from my own airport (I flew out of Hanscom Air Force Base) I went to Portland. Yikes, that airport is busy and big! I took my hamburglar doll and strapped it in the passenger seat for comfort, and forgot it was there when I asked them to refuel the plane. They were laughing their heads off when they came in and I was several shades of red, but it was fun.

It was at the height of both my career and my hobby, when I was suddenly taken my Multiple Sclerosis. It took months to get a diagnosis, but I was pretty sure at once. We have a lot of it in my mothers family. It also, for some reason, is concentrated in people who spent their first five years in the north. There is NO Multiple Sclerosis in the tropics. Very weird.

So I tried a number of hobbies to keep myself from going mad. First I made quilts. I was pretty good at it, but after a while there was no one left to give them to so I moved on to painting.

I had never taken a lesson, but I had watched Bill Alexander and Bob Ross for decades, so I just dove right in. It was a lot of fun, but I did not have an artists "voice." I never knew what to paint beyond flowers and landscapes. Too soon it became impossible as I was gaining a ton of weight and could not longer stand long enough to paint.

Next I made over 200 teddy bears for adult sick people. This was my favorite. Specially the time I got to deliver the myself. But that also became impossible.

Much later I begged my doctor to give me a pain medicine without side-effects so I could exercise and lose weight. She did! It was Stadol, which has no side-effects at all, no jumpiness at all. It just removes the pain and it is so safe they give it to women during birth.

Jump ahead a few years and I have lost an entire person (although she left her upper arms and thighs behind.) I have a heated pool and usually dance there all year. 2013/14 however is a different story. It is way too cold to even be outside. Never mind outside and WET. However I have become strong enough to dance in the house. so I am still losing weight.

The weight loss also let me become involved in my community and before I knew what was happening I was campaigning for President Obama. Politics has allowed me to make friends! It also gives form to my days. Although I tend to work too hard, I do love it. Right now I am involved with electing
Alex Sink to the House, and with Progressive Democrats of America calling congressmen/women and trying to get them to vote for our values. This is, I feel, is the most important thing I can do.

I realize I have not talked about my daughter. She did not turn out very well. At the age of three she was stolen from me by her father and he and his new wife brought her up badly. She has embezzled money twice, almost bankrupting a friend of the family. She takes hard drugs when she can get them, and is just a burden to society. She gave me to grandchildren, Nikki and Buddy. Nikki turned out well, but her education was interrupted by pregnancy. However, she works double shifts to support her son and her mother, and I am very proud of her. Buddy did not turn out well. It seems my daughter beat him. It did see her round house slap him in my house. (Told her never to do that again!) He was a delinquent, can barely read and write and does not want to. So he just lives with his EX inlaws and ignores his children. He prides himself for playing with them on Fridays - so he's a jerk. We don't speak because he told me to go F myself and I don't accept that type of language from my grand or great-grand children, and he won't apologize. To be honest I am relieved. He would only call me to beg for money anyway.

So I sit at my computer and make political calls for hours and do data entry whenever needed.

I did get to meet the President. I fainted at one of his rallies in Seminole. I was in the front row, as a valued volunteer, and someone whispered in his ear as he came by me on the way out. He gave me the two handed "I'm worried about you" shake and asked me if I was OK. All I could do was nod! Yes, I as star struck.

Not so much recently. I am very upset about his fast tracking the Trans Pacific Partnership, and even more that he is pushing it at all. It is the ultimate corporation take over of our country, as Mr. Snowden has revealed. I am also furious that he supports the XL Pipeline, which is an ecological disaster. Tar sands oil has already spilled and all they could do about it was throw some paper towels on it and run!

So this is probably way too long, but I do miss debating with people. So please forgive me, but that is my life to date.

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