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Born September 15, 1985, Bryce Weldon was the firstborn child to Lynn and Jonathan Weldon. They weren’t expecting it when Lynn got pregnant, they hadn’t even been married. Shotgun wedding with a bun in the oven, it wasn’t exactly how Lynn had dreamed of her wedding day. But, it is what it is. The couple were wed in April, their first child was born in September. The marriage was rocky at best. There were good times, there were bad times. When Bryce was about three years old, neither of his parents felt like the marriage was working, but they decided to have another kid to see if that would help. So, in October of 1989, Bryce’s sister Lila was born.

Unfortunately, things didn’t get any better between his parents, the ten year age-gap was just something they couldn’t bridge and the marriage was just not working. They fought constantly, and Bryce took it upon himself to keep Lila from realizing what was going on by keeping her occupied every time there was a blow-out fight. He would sneak into her room and sing to her. After another year of the fighting and arguing, the couple decided to file for divorce.

Bryce took it fairly hard, his father leaving the house was a bit of a traumatic experience for him, especially since his mother wasted no time in moving in with another man. It was almost instantaneous, and Bryce found out years later that his mother had been cheating on his father with this man. Bryce continued the role of protective older brother, not wanting Lila to have to worry about anything. He lived with Lila, his mother and Eddie (his mother’s boyfriend) in an apartment for a couple years, before they moved into a house that Eddie owned and had been renting out. The house was ten blocks from the school Bryce had been enrolled into for second grade, and both his mother and Eddie had to work. So they would leave Bryce home in the mornings, and Bryce would walk the ten blocks to school and the ten blocks home after school, use a key to let himself into the house, and would stay home alone until whoever got home from work first. This forced him to become independent at an early age, and it’s something that he would end up being extremely grateful for later in his life.

This continued for the next couple years, Bryce walking to and from school through fourth grade, and then in fifth grade he would be in charge of Lila, since she was now entering first grade at the same school. The summer between fifth and sixth grade, though, Lynn and Eddie were married and the family moved into a house that they bought. Lynn was pregnant again, and her mother had just retired, so Bryce’s grandmother offered to move in as somewhat of a live-in nanny for the family. Things changed dramatically for Bryce then, he wasn’t expected to be the one to take care of his sister constantly anymore, and he was able to actually do kid things. He joined baseball and basketball at the new school, and started making some good friends.

When it came time for high school, Bryce went to Mt Blue High School, and he played baseball and basketball there, too. He brought home decent grades, but wasn’t exactly interested in his schoolwork. He was more interested in his sports and girls. Those were the two big things that occupied most of his time. He dated on and off with a bunch of different girls, not really wanting anything too serious that he wouldn’t be able to keep up with. He graduated near the middle of his class, nothing spectacular, and he decided to attend a local community college to study sports medicine.

After being in classes for about a year, Bryce decided that he had absolutely no desire to be in school, so he dropped out. He started working in a local gym in order to pay the bills, mostly at the front desk, signing people in and all that fun stuff. He worked there in the gym for a few years before he decided that it was time to go back to school. He was sick of living paycheck to paycheck, and his cousin worked in physical therapy, which was the field he eventually wanted to get into. It was the motivation he needed to get back into school. Not wanting to do the whole community college thing again, Bryce looked into the PT program at the University of Maine – Farmington, and he applied to get in there.

In his third year of college, Bryce is ready to graduate already. He’s working in the fitness and recreational center on campus, commuting to work and class from an apartment he shares with a friend. He’s fairly happy with the way things are going for him right now… and he cannot wait until he finishes school.