User:Ernestsewell

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Ernest L Sewell, IV is an Oklahoma native (he prefers Oklahoman to Okie), born March 22, 1968. He was raised by strict Baptist parents who divorced after 12 years in 1980. His father, Ernest L Sewell, III (for which Ernest was named) who had a couple of years of college education, was a worker in the glass field installing windshields, windows, mirrors, and the link; while his mother, Patsy Jean Rich, who did not attend college, worked for various insurance companies throughout his childhood. His father was married once before while in college, but had the union annulled within a year. In 1967 he married Patsy, and in 1980 after divorcing Patsy, married Connie Beth Border Martin that same August. His mother remarried a few years later to Thomas Tompkins, but only for a couple of months. Tompkins later was found to be homosexual. A third marriage by Patsy in 1986 to Tom J. Estell was landed in August 1986. To the date of this editing both mother and father are still married to their third spouses. After Patsy filed for divorce from Ernest, III, he moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma where he still resides today. Patsy has lived in Oklahoma City, and Show Low, AZ, her current home.

Once graduating high school in 1986, Ernest and his mother came to heads in one of many arguments and without notice to Ernest's father, he moved to Tulsa to live with his father, much to his father's surprise. After only a few months, his father grew tired of him, and gave Ernest the choice to "Either chose a branch of the military to go into, or I'm giving you $20 and dropping you at the bus station." Ernest then chose the US Navy, against his better judgment of wanting to tell his father something else he didn't want to hear.

Ernest flew from Tulsa, OK to Chicago Illinois on Feb 28, 1987 to attend Great Lakes Recruit Training Command, where he graduated from bootcamp. He then served a month in "C School" which is a general course of training in one of the three fields in Naval service; that being Fireman (engineering), Airman (all things aircraft related), and Seaman (administrative). He was under the Fireman rating. He had two weeks vacation in early June before being sent to his new command aboard the USS Independence CV-62, an aircraft carrier which was then home ported in Philadelphia Pennsylvania at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (PNSY). White in Philadelphia, Ernest explored the city's museums, art galleries, and concert venues like Veteran's Stadium and The Spectrum. During his tour of duty, he toured the Americas, North and South. All the places he visited while in the military, domestic and international, were first time visits for Ernest. They included Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City, Norfolk Virginia, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, St. Thomas Virgin Islands, Rio De Janeiro Brazil, Acapulco Mexico, and San Diego California. While in San Diego he also visit his paternal uncle Paul in Los Angeles. Ernest served two years in the Navy, and was duly discharged with an Honorable Discharge on March 4, 1989. He returned to Oklahoma City to live with his mother.

She was temporarily separated from her husband Tom. He gained employment at the Oklahoma State Tax Commission, and continued there for a few months through tax season. When his mother and step-father decided to live together again, his mother one night just locked Ernest out of the house. He temporarily stayed with his grandmother (Patsy's mother) then was offered a place to live with his paternal cousins Jennifer and her husband Michael. But by the end of 1989 he grew weary of being back in Oklahoma, and after a falling out with his cousins, he decided to move to Los Angeles in January of 1990. Although intended to be more permanent, he stayed there but a few months. But while there for a year, and was a stage manager for the Believer's Repretory Company, as well as designed lighting and sound for two shows, "Father, Save Your Skin" written by Jane Hoffman, and a Larry Welch play. Ernest received raves from the cast, crew and audience for his nightly-changing lighting in "Father, Save Your Skin".. He grew weary of the Los Angeles lifestyle in some ways, and in June of 1990 returned to Oklahoma, this time going to Tulsa, where he father still lived.

When he moved back to Tulsa, Oklahoma and remained there until 1997.

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After a short affair with another man, Ernest lived in a homeless shelter for just under a year and then put himself into Cosmetology School, where he graduated at the top of his class. He worked for JCPenney's, Regis and did freelance work across Tulsa, OK.

March of 1997 saw Ernest moving to Minneapolis, with the help of a friend of Jane Hoffman's. The friend, Marguerite Harris, and Ernest were not the best of friends. Harris constantly maintained a rude and hostile enviornment towards Ernest until he literally "fled" from her home a few months later, moving to St. Paul. After a few months in St. Paul (while working 2 jobs at the Mall of America), he found his landlord Jeffrey Berg (he rented a room in the house) was a convicted child molestor and still traded child porn on a new thing called The Internet. Having found hard evidence of this, he notified the other roommates in the house, Ernest literally fled town to Albany, NY on October 1, 1997.

Ernest has remained in Albany since then, still being a hair stylist on the side as well as working on the computer field. His love of computer, including PC and Apple, have enabled him to expand his knowledge base of hardware and software.

Ernest remains single to this day, but is never alone.