User:JasmineLaster

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Jasmine Larrelle Laster was born on October 23, 1985 in Newark, New Jersey to Gary Alexander Laster and Tammy Michelle King. She is a senior creative writing with a minor in communication at the prestigious Florida State University. She is currently in relationship with Vincent Demond Wright, 21, who attends FAMU. The two have been dating for two years and plan to marry in the near future. She plans to attend University of North Florida graduate program to pursue her doctorates in creative writing and become a professor.

[edit] Childhood

She is the oldest of three girls, Jamisha and Janice. Her parents, respectively 18 and 17, married a year later and her father enlisted into the U.S. army. When she was a year old her parents moved to Germany were her father was stationed at. After fives years in Germany, her parents moved back to New Jersey. Her father was a drug addict and his addiction was affecting the family. In 1993, after her youngest sister Janice was born, her parents moved to Houston, Texas in hopes that her father will relinquish his drug habit if close to his older brother James. Unfortunately, her father could not overcome his drug addiction and the family moved to Jacksonville, Florida. Jasmine attended J.E.B. Stuart middle school were she excelled academically, consistently being on the academic honor roll throughout her 3 years. She was also a member of J.E.B Stuart advance band and pep band were she was section leader , earning her many prestigious awards. In 1999, she was accepted to the Law magnet program and attended Samuel W. Wolfson High. There she met the love of her life Vincent, but they both did not know it yet. Although ,her first year was rocky, Jasmine begin to excel academically and socially after her parent divorce. In a 2005 interview she reported that “the best thing my father has ever done for me is leave.” In 2002, she became a member of the National Honor Society and high school community service sorority, Sigma Phi Delta. In 2003, Jasmine graduate from Wolfson with honors at 17 and earned a full scholarship to FSU.

[edit] College

Although, Jasmine was academically successfull in highschool , the trauma that she experienced as a child causes her to go through an emotional ordeal her freshman year of college in 2003. Her best friend betrayed her and she went through a string of bad relationships. Her great grandmother died, which added to her pain causing her to go through a serious depression In 2005 interview, she told reporters that she felt she didn’t deserve to live anymore and that it wasn’t worth it. Fortunately, Jasmine survived her freshman ordeal which led her to success through the rest of her college career. She reunited with her high school friend Vincent Wright and began dating. In 2004 she became a American Read Mentor and in 2005 she was a Resident Advisor for Osceola Village because she wanted to prevent freshman from going through the same turmoil that she went through. Presently Ms. Laster is currently working on a short story, that she hopes to publishes that details many colorfulcharacters that she has met over the years. In the Fall, she will be interning will the prestigious Kudzu Review, a FSU literary magazine, and will be graduating in April 2007. In her latest interview, Ms. Laster said that “she finally feels that she is on the right track and God is giving her the peace that she has long for all her life.”