My name is Mary Alice Young. If you would have picked up the morning paper on this very day three years ago, you may have come across the article about the unusual day I had the week before. Normally there is nothing very newsworthy that takes place on Wisteria Lane but that all changed since that fateful October day so many years ago. Everything seemed quite normal for the outsider looking in. Everyone performed their chores, completed their projects, ran their errands and in truth, spent the day just as they spent every other day; quietly polishing the routines of their lives till they gleamed with perfection . Yes, for the outsider looking in everything seemed perfect; but had they taken a second glace, they would have realized, they had never been more wrong.

Let me take the time to introduce you to the people I was lucky enough to call my friends. At the very beginning of my street in the beautiful yellow house, lived an equally as beautiful woman named Gabrielle Solis. If there is anything I can say about Gabby it's that she wasn't one to take no for an answer. Born in Guadalajara, Gabrielle graced the covers of countless fashion magazines before retiring her modeling career in her late 20's. Why did she retire at the top of her game you ask? It was none other than a labor of love. Gabrielle quit her modeling career to marry the rich and handsome Carlos Solis. Feeling desperate and alone Gabrielle had an affair with her teenage gardener and in turn Carlos had an affair with their maid Xiao-Mei. After many failed attempts to have children Gabrielle divorced Carlos and soon after married Victor Lange who is now the prominent mayor of Fairview. But like Gabrielle's one of a kind Jimmy Choo's or her 15,000 Zac Posen proto-type bag, she always wanted what she couldn't have. Shortly after her wedding to Victor, Gabrielle found herself back in the arms of the man she tried to so relentlessly to leave.

Mike Delfino, the neighborhood plumber lives to the left of the Solis home in a house Mike constructed with his own two hands. He moved to Fairview three years ago in search of his girlfriend Deirdre who had been missing after a drug deal went horribly wrong. After finding out the truth about Deirdre's "incident" he also stumbled upon the fact that he had a teenage son named Zack who just so happened to be the boy I adopted 18 years ago. After my death, Zack moved away with his adopted father and Mike pursued a relationship with Susan Mayer the bubbly brunette down the street. Hopelessly in love, one cool May night Mike made his way to the lake to meet Susan with every intention of proposing, but on his way there he was the victim of a vicious hit and run. After a slow recovery Mike woke up to find Susan in love with a man she had met in the very hospital he had lived in for the past six months. Unable to prove his adoration enough to change Susan's mind, they went their separate ways and with no place to go and a deal too good to pass up Mike ended up living just houses down from his former residence. After all of the work Mike put into renovations, his beautiful home has enough room for him as well as all of his secrets.

Two houses down to the right of Gabrielle lives Susan Hainsworth, but judging by the time she actually spends in her suburban home you wouldn't think anyone lives there at all. Susan was the first of my friends to move to Wisteria lane. I will always remember her as sweet and as charming as she was when I first met her, after she locked herself in her moving van. She and her husband Karl relocated here in search of a brand new start for them as well as their daughter Julie. What seemed like the beginning of a beautiful life quickly turned unsightly when Susan caught Karl cheating on her with his secretary. After her divorce she dated a couple of men including a self righteous cop and a loving doctor, but she fell head over heels for Mike Delfino. Through many trials and tribulations, things finally started coming together. Susan thought her and Mike were going to have the happy ending they always wanted when Mike got hit by a car causing him to endure a six month coma leaving Susan feeling vastly alone. That's when she met Ian Hainsworth, a married English businessman whose wife had suffered the same fate as Mike. They quickly fell in love but upon Mike's awakening Susan just couldn't bear to leave Ian abandoning Mike just as Karl had done to her. Having businesses in Europe and in the U.S. Susan and Ian live between their apartment in London and Susan's home here on Wisteria Lane where her heart remains.

Across the street from Susan lived a woman whose home was the model abode of suburbia. For as long as I had known Bree Hodge she always had the cleanest house, threw the most amazing dinner parties, and made the most amazing pineapple bran muffins. She was the epitome of what every housewife should be. Looking at her you would think she had everything. Bree was very good at keeping up a façade but lately she hadn't felt the need to. She has a perfect husband and two beautiful children; a daughter Danielle and a son Andrew; but things weren't always this way. Two and a half years ago with her marriage failing and her husband in bad health, Bree became very close to her pharmacist and friend George Williams. What seemed like an innocent friendship quickly turned dangerous when George began stalking her and his obsessive actions eventually led him to the murder of her first husband Rex. On a cool night when Bree was set to co-host a charity event, George committed suicide in the very same building the party took place. Bree moved on and married Orson Hodge a local orthodontist. Soon after her wedding Bree's daughter Danielle got pregnant and Bree hoaxed a pregnancy to spare her family the humiliation and to get a second chance at raising a child. After the delivery of the baby, Bree and Orson took over parenting rights and Danielle moved to Florida to go to school. Everybody thought Bree Hodge was absolutely perfect but if you ask me, I find imperfection the most interesting thing about a person.

Next door to Bree lives one of the newest housewives on the lane, Katherine Mayfair. Katherine moved here from Chicago with her daughter Dylan and her husband Adam for the same reasons most of the residents did, to escape her past and start over. Even though Katherine just moved in, it was not the first time she had ever set foot on this street. Katherine lived her many years ago until an accident caused her to flee to the city in search of consolation. Her homecoming wasn't exactly warm and she butt heads with Bree from the beginning but I am sure if my friends give her time, she will open up and prove to be a worthy ally.

At 4355 Wisteria Lane, was a family of vast proportions. Lynette Scavo never planned on having any children. From the time she was old enough to really understand the family she had been born into, she had sworn off all offspring what so ever. When Lynette turned 23 fate stepped in and all of her predetermined values went out the window when she got pregnant with her first child after sleeping with her boyfriend for the first time. Evelyn Kendall Lindquist was born on December 9th, 1985 and instantly became the center of Lynette's whole world. Three years later Lynette thrust herself into the advertising world and quickly became the head CEO for her company. That is where she met Tom Scavo, fellow businessman and future husband. Lynette and Tom got married after a year of dating and set out to start a new life together. They moved to Wisteria Lane upon discovering Lynette was pregnant with twins. 9 months later, Preston and Porter Scavo were born. One year later Parker Scavo was born, and 5 years after that Lynette had Penny. When

Lynette put her foot down when it came to the discussion of having more children but as life would have it, Tom discovered he had a daughter Kayla from a one night stand he had before they were married. After proving herself a prominent problem, Kayla's mother Nora and Lynette came to an agreement and Nora bought a house in town and her and Tom share joint custody of their girl. The Scavo children are all one of a kind. Parker is at the top of his class, Porter and Preston won a science fair award last week, and Penny can talk up a storm but one element of the Scavo brood stands out above the others.

Everyone has a story to tell; Some involve the pair of red pumps they just bought, the kitchen they just remodeled, the pictures they took on a recent trip to Paris, the new recipe for lemon meringue pie, or the memories they left in the city, but Evelyn Lindquist's story is one so full of faith and love, sorrow, pain, hope and redemption it was a story too good not to tell. It all started on a cool September morning when Evelyn's world was turn upside down within a matter of seconds…