Post by RALEIGH ADAM POST on May 25, 2011 14:29:54 GMT -5
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His father would have liked him to play baseball or basketball. Even try out for the high school swim team. Raleigh always took to a more creative route, though. He liked to draw, always had. He was your typical toddler at the dinner table with a box of crayons and stack full of coloring books. As Raleigh grew up, he traded the coloring books for sketchpads and the crayons for charcoal pencil sets. Sometimes, he paints but he much prefers to have a firm grip on a pencil or pastel piece than anything else. He never thought about going into teaching. His dad had already decided he would go into the family business. Raleigh's little sister at least had the option of University. While working for his Dad, he took night art classes at one of the community centers in Greenwich Village. He would have liked to go to professional art school somewhere, but at the time, that was what was doable. Before he hit nineteen, Raleigh finally lashed out at his father and made a decision for himself. He went to University, earned his degree in education, and became a art teacher. He still creates on his own, outside of a classroom and he sells enough for pocket change. Raleigh doesn't really care too much about the income, as long as he's doing what he loves to do.adhd
When Raleigh was nine, he was diagnosed with ADHD. He had always had a hard time concentrating in class or sitting still. He was quiet, though. He grew up with a Dad that liked to yell and his teachers didn't take kindly to his poor grades, so they shouted at him often as well. He was given Ritalin at a young age and took them diligently for a full year. They helped as well. The only reason he stopped taking the medication was because when his sister was three, she got a hold of them and took them all. It wasn't a suicide attempt, she still wore Pull-Ups to bed, it was just a big mistake. Anyway, her body shut down and she was rushed to the emergency room. Raleigh remembered thinking for a second it might be the first time he would ever see his father cry, but he didn't. His dad spent the whole time talking on the phone about something to do with his business. Their Aunt Liz, who was also their nanny, wept like a baby, though, but Raleigh assumed it was because she was scared of losing her job. She wasn't fired, though. She was family. And luckily Savannah was alright and doesn't seem to have a real recollection of the event. Raleigh still has a hard time concentrating on anything for too long, he gets bored easily, and he rarely sits still. Dinner dates are Hell for that reason alone, but he isn't quiet anymore. When the fear of his father subsided so did his shyness. He isn't the most talkative guy, but he is less likely to be mistaken for a mute now.family business
Mr. Post wasn't the first high school drop-out in his family. His two brothers had quit in grade ten years before him, his little sister was the only one of their generation to graduate. Mr. Post became a success story, though, as far as crooked and thieving drop-outs go. He runs a successful prostitution ring that is cleverly covered up as a laundromat. Raleigh had grown up among the seedy business and the girls that worked for his dad and his two Uncles, but it wasn't until he was fourteen, when he lost his virginity to one of the prostitutes, that he came to realize what was going on. He should have figured it out before hand considering they lived quite lavishly for laundromat employees. When Raleigh got his full license at sixteen, it was his job to transfer the girls from client to client through out the night. It made Raleigh sick to his stomach and he tried his best to mentally detach from the job, but that wasn't always easy. Actually, along the way, he made a couple close friends out of the hookers. When he hit eighteen and started talking about art school, his dad insist that he start to shadow either his Uncle Joseph or Uncle Kyle. He could either learn how to manage the books and clientele or he could recruit new girls. Raleigh chose the books. It seemed the least tainted of all the jobs. It wasn't until days before his nineteenth birthday that he pulled out of the family business. His decision has left him in a sour place with his father, but they are cordial when they do have to run into one another.sterile
It was something stupid he and his friends were doing. Raleigh had been complaining to them that he felt like all the money he had was tainted and dirty. It was money from his dad's business (these friends were guys who also worked for the “company” as Raleigh doesn't make public his dad is a pimp). They drunkenly joked that he should go to a sperm bank, donate his little swimmers, and make money that way. Raleigh, who was sober, figured it might be fun. He could stick it to his old man in some indirect way. He didn't even think about it afterward until the clinic called him and asked that he come in to speak to one of their doctors. They confirmed that he was sterile. It was a lot to take in at eighteen. He hadn't been dreaming about a family full of children at the time, but he knew that one day he might like have to have a kid or two. He had always been close to his little sister who was only eleven at the time, but it was then that she became his world. He would never be able to have kids, so she was as close as he would ever get. It's also why he doesn't teach elementrary years. He worries it might be too painful. He taught junior high for one year, but it was hard as well, so now he just teaches at high school where the kids are too lippy to want to take home.europe
Raleigh's mother lives in Holland. She and his father were never married and it's questionable if they ever even dated. In Raleigh's mind, she can't be the first woman that his dad knocked up, but she was enough of caliber and money to track him down and demand he have something to do with his son. Raleigh feels much closer to his mom than he does his dad though despite never living with her. Every summer and many winters, he was sent out there to spend the holidays with her and that's where Raleigh feels his best memories come from. He sometimes wonders to himself why he didn't fly off to Holland once he graduated high school. She supports his art and she would have happily sent him to live in Paris and study there. Nowadays, Raleigh uses his European ties as blackmail to keep Savannah in school. He promises her that they can runaway to live with his mother if she doesn't drop out and graduates.
