i'm a mutt:
25% czechoslavakian (not sure which half, since they're now split)
25% french
25% italian
12½% spanish
12½% puerto rican

lived in joisy all my life...mostly central (edison, metuchen, fords, highland park, linden, rahway, piscataway), but i did a 3 yr stint "down the shore" (asbury park, bradley beach, neptune).

my french backround is by way of louisiana which is by way of canada. there was a french revolutionary named jean valjean that is in my family line. my mother was named after him (ValliJean).

my dad got the truth first thru a high school friend. my mom studied and got baptized when i was about 2. dad stopped studying and moved out. i got baptized when i was 15. (unfortunately, dad died when i was 9...but i'm looking forward to studying with him!)

here's some trivia: my mom was baptized at the first circuit assembly at monroe, ny (1972, i think); i was baptized at the first circuit assembly at jersey city, nj (1985)!!