:Update March 2014:

Real Life... still sucking, however I am writing. I have started two other stories (though I'm not sure if I'll post them or how much time I'll dedicate to them yet) I really want to work on Lost Childhood, so that is where most of my free time is being spent. I started this story to be about Bella's growth after such a traumatic childhood, with a nice love story to boot. Instead, it has become more of a love story and less of personal growth. For now it is being re-written. I don't anticipate it being that much different, but it will be longer (I'm not taking away, merely adding). I am waiting until I am a few chapters ahead, and then I will slowly start putting back the new improved chapters. For the time being I have removed all but the preface. I'm sorry for the delay.

Hi, I'm a mom of 4, completely obsessed with the characters from Twilight. I love well-written, cannon pairing stories. I enjoy unique stories the best. Though sometimes, if it's written well enough I will read a familiar plot to see where it's going. If I enjoy your story, I will TRY to leave a review. Typically I am too impatient to wait for chapters, so I mostly stick to the stories that are complete. If I don't leave a review, it probably means I'm too depressed with RL to say anything nice...and my mother always said; "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

My favorite authors is compiled of authors I think are talented and worth reading.

My favorite stories list is just that. It consists only of the stories I love the very most! I expect it to remain short. This is an excellent list. I highly recommend all the stories on this list. They are all my favorites, though some are better than others. I really wish you could number them in order of preference. But that would be so difficult. :)

Oh and in my opinion, I have found at least two 13 year olds who can write almost as well as a great published author. Thanks to self publishing and free ebooks, I have also found published books that appear to be written by 9 year olds. So I don't judge someone just because they're still in high school. I've also found 30 ladies who still can't use grammar correctly. Please, if you can't do the job yourself, get a freakin' beta. Strike that, everyone who writes anything just go and get a freakin' beta!

Lost Childhood pics found here:http://picasaweb.google.com/musehere

The amazing and talented lovedwardalways made me an icon for my story. SHE ROCKS!!

Picasaweb is a free picture place. People, please copy the pictures you choose and make an account and put the link on your profile. It is so frustrating to read a story that has bad links and then when I ask about the pictures, the author gives me their apologies saying some crap about the link having expired. Copy the freakin' pictures so that you assure your links ALWAYS work!

Chapter 8: The 'angry' song I picture Edward playing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-lpabSGwe8&feature=related