"The rest of my time in high school I acted in many plays, and I continued dating Tommy Robbins. The summer after we graduated, Tommy proposed to me, and we married that fall. Then we moved to Hollywood, where we both pursued acting careers.

While my mom worked as supervisor, Gil continued raising Noah, and when Noah went off to preschool, he became a professor at LVU. When Noah was 10, mom was promoted to Lab Director, which was a position she enjoyed immensely.

Lydia, while raising Samantha and William, became a partner in the casino business with grandfather. Shortly before he died, he gave ownership of the casinos to Lydia, mom, and I. But we decided to make Lydia the sole owner, for which she paid us rather handsomely. This made life rather comfortable for all of us, and Greg left his job at the lab to help Lydia manage the casinos, and raise the twins. Sam grew up beautifully, and she became a singer. Bill worked in the casinos, and he became a partner in the business as well. The casinos are still owned by his side of the family.

After Sara and Nick's son Jason was born, they married. Nick decided to get a job as a psychologist, and Sara remained the night shift supervisor for a long time. They had three other children: Amanda, Collin, and Katherine.

Warrick became the swing shift supervisor after mom was promoted, and Roxie kept her job as a tox and chemical analyst in the lab. They only had one child, a son they named Xavier.

Dr. Al Robbins was happy that I married his grandson Tommy, who he had raised since Tommy's father (Al's son) had died in a car accident when Tommy was 6. He retired when he was 65, and then he and his wife lived a relaxing life of leisure until their deaths.

Jim Brass and his daughter Ellie had a decent relationship with one another, and when she settled down and became an elementary school teacher, he was very proud of her. Of course I'm only really mentioning this because she had married my cousin Jake Michaels, making them relatives.

While all the people I knew and loved were growing and changing, so was I. I landed a role in a television show that became a hit. Tommy started getting roles in major motion pictures, and we both became very famous. Our first child we named Leanna. She was born two years into our marriage, one year into my working on TV. She eventually developed a crush on Jason Stokes, Nick and Sara's oldest son. In their twenties they married.

After the show I was on went off the air, I went on to do movies, and it became a family business after awhile. Both Tommy and I won awards for our work. Leanna, and Benjamin, as well as our adopted children Sarah, Jacques, and Rachella all went into different aspects of theater. Sarah and Rachella joined Lydia's daughter Sam in a musical group.

So much happens in life, sometimes more than we could ever expect. Sometimes it's a whirlwind of events, and sometimes it's a gentle breeze of calm. But no matter what, love is what leads us on.

Love is forever; as is family, but the truest family of all are the people who love you unconditionally. Though mistakes can threaten to tear apart the fragile bonds we create we can try to understand why things happen, after all no one knows what happened before them."

Thus ends the autobiography of Lindsey Robbins, star of television and movies.

Leanna Robbins Stokes shut the door and let her mother sleep some more. Lindsey Grace Willows Grissom Robbins was 87 years old, and she knew that she was close to dying, every breath that she took told her that. She had lived a full and happy life; she was a great-grandmother as well. She was the last of those who had been there since her youth, her brother was still alive, as were several other family members of hers, Tommy had died six years earlier, she was ready to pass on.

She thought back to through the many events of her life, the good and the bad, and she realized how incredible it had all been. She remembered her birthdays, her school plays, her father's death, her quest to find Lydia and their first hug, reuniting her whole family, finding out that Gil was Liddy's father, Liddy moving out to be with them, and getting kidnapped. She remembered the weddings of Catherine and Gil, Greg and Lydia, Nick and Sara, Warrick and Roxie, Jake and Ellie. She remembered all of her life with Tommy, dating him, marrying him, and having his children, she also remembered his death. She remembered the birth of her brother, her niece and nephew all on the same day. She remembered all the births, weddings, and funerals she had attended in her lifetime. She remembered the deaths of all the ones that she cared about, her mom, her dad, Gil, Greg, Lydia, Nick, Sara, Warrick, Roxie, and so many others. She remembered the first time she preformed on stage, the day she auditioned for her role on 'City Streets', and the day that her autobiography was published, she remembered her first movie contract, winning awards, and oh so much more.

She was eighty-seven years old, and she had seen so much in her life. She closed her eyes for the final time and she breathed out her last breath. She was asleep, the final eternal sleep; she had finally gone home to be with all of her friends and loved ones. Those who remained on Earth mourned her loss, but those who greeted her rejoiced that she was with them. She was embraced again by her family and friends, by people whom she hadn't seen since they had died when she was only a child.

THE END

Thank you so much for staying around with this story for so long! Looking back at it I've seen things that I could have made better, but in the end, this is what you got. I don't know when my next fic will come along because I have to write a story for creative writing, and I don't know what ship my next story will be either. I need help on I PROMISE, because I don't know what to do in it any more. I hope you liked the ending, I wrote part of it months ago, but the rest I just figured out.

Thanks to the following for their reviews: Janisha, DrusillaBraun, belgianbabe2974, MyBella131, gloomy forensic scientist. I also thank everyone else who has been faithfully reading this since the beginning.

And MERRY CHRISTMAS to all. If that's not what you celebrate, happy holidays, and if you aren't happy that it's the holidays…. Bah humbug!