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Harold and Miranda met at a poetry reading in college and insist, to this very day that their joint love of poetry and literature is what led them to fall in love that day and eventually start their family. They were only dating a brief time before jumping the gun and tying the knot, ignoring the pleas of friends and family begging for them to give it more time. They were dreamers at the time though and believed in the ever lasting power of the "true love" they read about in books and poems..there was no talking sense into them. Young and in love they wanted to start a family instantly, they wanted to have children right away so down the line they would have plenty of time with the children grown to really work on their dreams and make them come true. To put it simply...they wanted to get the parenting out of the way at an early age so they can spend their golden days living out their own dreams and not worrying about children. By age twenty-four they had their first child, the second two years following, and the third two years following that. Always keeping on a set time line. The couple did have some supportive friends and family who watched the children when they went to school. Harold went on to medical school while Miranda studied journalism, both wanting to be sure the other achieved their goals. With the help of friends and family, the couple was able to meet their goals and in the time they anticipated. They were focused and determined...but they focused so much on their education and career goals that in some ways, failed as parents even if they both refused to believe that to be true.
The drive of their parents seemed to have fallen onto the eldest two of the three children, with both of them becoming incredibly successful individuals. Joshua and Andrea were only a few years apart in age but closer to each other than they were to Ginsberg and because of this, they were closer in general growing up. Both children made excellent grades in school, were incredibly well liked, popular, and the end of their classes, they were also very athletic, him with football and her with cheerleading. By her senior year of high school she was the class president and went on to attend Yale the next year while Joshua went to play basketball at Duke. Following graduating from college, she went to become a lawyer and he opened his own athletic store, currently in the process of opening a second location with the hope of turning it into a chain in a few years. Andrea moved to the East coast (Boston, to be exact) where she is married and about to have her first child and Joshua stayed on the west coast and is currently engaged to a woman with a child from a previous relationship. Andrea and Joshua have proven to be...every parents dream child...and then there is Ginsberg.
Usually it is the youngest child that is the most loved, the baby of the family everyone seems to fawn over. Considering his parents only wanted two children and Ginsberg was the accident baby, he received very little love, affection, and attention from his parents. By the time he was born his parents were over taking photos and keeping mementos of baby's first laugh, first word, first step, there was never a photo album made of him and in fact to this day, his parents have very few photos of him as a child. Whenever he had an accomplishment no matter how big or small, they simply nodded but showed little affection or care for it, while his elder siblings would get endless praise when they were his age. All through high school he struggled to get good grades but needed more attention than other students and by his senior year he was making average C's and B's which were an incredible struggle for him to get and he was proud of while his parents were angry he did not do better. He was never good at sports, never good at joining activities but with his personality he was popular and was crowned prom king, another accomplishment his parents rolled their eyes at. Then college acceptance time came and unlike his siblings, he did not go off to a school to play sports and he did not get into any ivy league college, he got into community college and a few state schools, still not good enough for his parents...yet he kept trying to make them happy and impress them.
Halfway through his freshman year of college, he started to slack off. He stopped going to his early classes, spent his nights drinking, stopped studying, he realized that no matter how well he does it will never be good enough for his parents. By the end of freshman year he had enough of the fighting, he was sick of them calling him useless, saying he was the disappointment so he dropped out. When he told his parents he had decided to no longer attend college, they kicked him out and told him to find some loser friends to live with. Thankfully he did have a number of close friends who were kind enough to take him in and over the next three and a half years, he had time to figure himself out and find what he was good at. Unfortunately he never found a career path he wanted to stick to so he ended up working as many as four jobs a time, all to save money so he could eventually find his own place and figure out where to go from there. Throughout it all though, through all the loss, confusion, and sincere desire and attempts to find himself, he had the comfort of a small group of close friends...and one woman to get him through it all.
She was his best friends much older sister and his first actual crush. Eleven years older than him and he still had daydreams about her, she was always so nice to him every time he stayed at their house. She made him smile, she made him laugh, they even had a handful of late night talks when her brother was asleep. The more time he spent at their house the closer he got to her, Kennedi was more than just a crush to him, she was the girl he compared all else to. Every single failed relationship in his life from the age of of fourteen until twenty-two have all failed because of her, because none of them made him feel the way she did. Suddenly one day when he was twenty-two and she was thirty-two, they hung out as the usually did and he kissed her. That first kiss was the one that changed it all, she became his world and he hers. In the short time they have been together they have been through so much from her drug addiction, to her struggle with mental illness, his family problems, his failed jobs, fights with friends and family, her touring with her band, they spent time apart and together, and realized how important they are to one another. After only dating a few months, they were married in August and to this day it is the best decision of his life, Kennedi Caulfield has become his entire world, his reason for happiness, his inspiration, his life.
Shortly after they married, Gin decided he wanted no further association with his family so rather than Kennedi change her last name, he changed his from O'Keefe to Caulfield, finding much more comfort in being closer to her family than his own. After living together for several months in her parents home in California, Gin decided that the couple was in need of a change of scenery and when he suggested they move to Ohio, she jumped at the idea. It only took them a few days to gather their things, find a small place to rent for a decent price, say their goodbyes to friends and family and hit the road. Having only been in the city a short time, Kennedi appears to have found her footing and as usual, Gin is struggling with a passion, something to be good at and a career path to walk down but he is confident that the love of his wife is all the motivation he needs to figure it out.
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