Rob Mendonsa

It's been an interesting life thus far, to say the least. I was born to an average hard working middle class family to parents who did the best to give me everything myself and my two sisters could possibly need growing up.

Our parents were strict old school European and made sure that we had good values growing up, they gave us all we needed to become well functioning human beings. They spoiled us at times but when we misbehaved we knew it, there was no misunderstanding when we stepped out of line. There was rules and a line, and consequences if you crossed either one of them. But we had respect something so sorely missing in todays youth.

I have spent time in the military, worked for my parents in a family run bakery and then worked in a factory for 10 years. But I always yearned for something more, I felt the brain cells being sucked from my head each day as I went in and pushed a button for eight hours a day five days a week.

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