You have illustared a brutaly colorful bio. I also think that your experince with your parents and the contrasting partners that you have had in you life have helped shaped you into the relentles person that you are today.
I was also in a dead end situation with a labor job here and a lube tech job there that caused me to wake up a bit later in life. I woke up from my youthful mindless meandering to the regimented acedimic life of Cabrillo College. Because of that choice I found myself heading to the Lone Star state on a athletic scholarship, then eventualy graduating from West Texas A&M with a B.S. in general studies. Ironicly I am now looking to go back to law school to get my J.D.