Ana and nils were the neighbourhood who were born and adopted from the same warzone that I was born in!  When I first saw them I was 3 1/2 years old to 4 years old and I remember losing it when first seeing them and pushed nils off his trike!  But soon time heal all wounds and I was able to be friends with the after entering kindergarten!   They seemed still annoying from time to time, but I guess I can not fix that ......time had to deal with that soon! But the time I was in sixth grade there we my good to friends!  But as time went on the became my write hand man, and Woman as I was losing my kindergarten friends, no thank you to Jen and Karen!   What I remember when we were in 7th grade and 8th grade that we were watching the x-files, the simpsons and Jackie Chan movies! 
Soon in the eighth grade I had no one but them to call my friends!   We had most things in common, the country we were born in and the fact that we were the same age group!  I was happy with them as my friends or things would have been different and not in a good way.....they believed in me.  Where no one else not even my parents believed in me!
I saw the both everyday!  And it was more than fun.....it was supportive! We went to eachothers birthdays, except for the fact that I did not like some of their friends who were Mensa snobbery!  I have an IQ of 196 and never want to join f*cking Mensa!    Because of the snobbery!  So soon I was not invited back to the birthdays because of of a fight between a Mensa snob and my self!  Let's say I am more down to earth and don't do math equations for fun, so I couldn't go to there house during birthdays, but the came to mine.  Something I appreciated deeply! 
Soon the x-files made way to video games and I was addicted to video games!   The say the video games cause seizures but I never even want twitch in my body unless I got in crap.....the buckling knees and jaw!  And there were many of those in my youth as my parents at times were annoying, and I to them!   Let's say that I did not appreciate the fighting that my parents and I did do!  And there was a lot of that!  
One time I went to Ana and Nils's mom and said my parents were sh*t!  I remember correctly!  That I was able to confide in the woman more then my on parents!  When my boyfriend in high school cheated she heard about it and wood give me a book!   Usually Islamic poetry!  That being said......she helped and her adoptive children: Ana and Nils helped in ways the were astronomical!  Would I be the right sane and caring person with out the hamsters!  No!  
In fact I would not even be able to understand who Quentin Tarantino was!  He is the best movie director and I borrowed his last name for my pen name....T.M. Tarantino!

Really I have to thanks these two kids now adults to define who I was as a person......I good and decent person with a fiery imagination like that of Quentin Tarantino.....but do my stuff in writing!     I just hope I can write a good movie script under my legal name elena melanson if I don't change it between now and then!

-T.M.