Blevens, Danyah

I was born in Tennessee in 1953. I was named after a pretty girl my dad went to school with. Dad had just gotten out of the army and moved back to his hometown with his new wife and his first child on the way. When I was only three months old mom and dad moved back to the Pacific Northwest so dad could find work. This was also where all my cousins, aunts and uncles, and my grandpa and Grandma Jo lived. When I was five years old my little sister was born. I loved her very much. I still do. At the age of seven I was heartbroken when my mom and dad sold almost everything and bought a big tent so