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About me:

I'm a 28 year old (though I still find that hard to believe) living in los angeles with my beautiful wife and baby. I have lived a largely charmed life being the recipient of love from so many of my friends and family. I hope that others feel I have given some of this back into the world.

Though I have been so fortunate throughout my lifetime and despite the immense loss of my Tata last December, I feel that I am living the best part of my life right now, that is, I am happier than I have ever been. I have an incredibly loving and lovable wife, Jenny and a wonderful daughter with a beautiful mellow soul, Malia. We are very private, though you wouldn't know from my being on myspace and spilling all this out to friends, family and total strangers, and few people truly know what it is that we have.

My mother is probably the nicest, most selfless person in the world and is the best Mimi ever. My sister was a social firefly and is becoming one again. She is getting fiestier by the hour (this is a good thing!). She's the greatest sister and tia to Malia. Though my relationship with my father has had some strain on it lately, we are still close and I enjoy our time together. I have a set of first cousins who are like brothers and sisters to me. My best friends I've known for most of my life and though we don't see each other as much anymore, I regard them as my family. I don't talk to many people from high school, but in most cases this is a really good thing (except for Tim of course). My college friends and I have completely lost touch but I'd love to reconnect with them.

Lately I've become very interested in agriculture which I think I must have had instilled in me by my parents and grandparents. This interest originally came about from being a foodie but has since taken on a very important place in my life. Jenny not only puts up with my being a wanna-be farmer, but she helps!!!

I feel that I am probably one of the luckiest people alive. We are living a simple but completely fulfilling life. Though my personal life is so good, I do feel saddened when observing the problems of our world. I get increasingly frustrated by the state of American society and the direction that I can see it headed. I feel that materialism, ignorance, celebrity/entertainment worship, and violence are spreading and becoming the dominant forces of our culture, and no one seems to care. Have you ever heard of "bread and circus"? If you know me, you'll know that I can talk for hours about this and some of my friends and Sonia, my sister, get incredibly annoyed at me about this. Luckily, Jenny and Malia don't seem to mind. Anyway, this is probably way too long already. If you're still reading, nice to see you again or nice to meet you.

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