I don't often pull back the curtain on my internet persona, but I must today. This has been one of the worst weeks of my life.
Most of you know I'm single, but none of you knew I have been very much in love with the same woman since 1998. She's a little spitfire standing only 4'11". Her name is Shiela Reed. We make quite a couple with me at 6'2". We both are racing nuts and go to everything from local dirt tracks to NASCAR at Texas Motor Speedway every chance we get.
She has 2 girls Karena and Jennifer and a son, Dalton. Karena was born with severe Cerebal Palsy and confined to a wheelchair. Shiela always did what it took to make ends meet and still give her kids all the attention they needed. There was nothing she would not do to give her children what they needed.
Last September she moved to Kileen to get a fresh start. It put a damper on our relationship, but we constantly talked on the phone and e-mailed each other. We had planned a get together this weekend. Her ex had the kids for 2 weeks and she was going to ride the train to Ft.Worth. We were going to get to spend the week together.
Wednesday everything changed. Shiela volunteered to work on the 4th of July to get an extra day off for our trip. She went in to work at Dollar General early that morning to help stock before the store opened. From all appearances she walked in on a robbery in progress. Shiela was shot and killed. We will bury her next to her parents Monday.
Of all the people in this world that deserve bad things to happen to them, Shiela was not one of them.
I will always love you Shiela.
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