Erin was the first born granddaughter on both sides of the family. In 1973, her mother Margaret Ruth Sweeney, then a senior in highschool and her father, Dennis Patrick Smith, also in the same grade and school, by some odd force of nature,...met. She was a vegetarian, and he soon after graduating became a butcher. Erin, still to this day, will never understand how they ever came to produce two children. They say, opposites attract,...but this was a highly confusing situation.
Obviously, they didn’t last 5 years, but what came of them after was mainly due to Ruth’s(she changed her name from Margaret), strong will, brains and (probably) determination to survive!
Ruth was amazing ! She, at age 25, in1978, picked up everything she had,..including her two kids, and and got into programming(boring and tedious!), and moved two hours away to start a career completly on her own.