Dear Hanna,

I am pleased to make your acquaintance. My name is Johan B. Bailey. I live in Florida about an hour south of Orlando, just twenty minuets east of the coast. I guess I should tell you a little about myself. This might take a while so get comfortable.

I guess I'll start with where I was born? Sometime early in the morning I started out in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I think I stayed there until I was about two, or at least in the area. Then, at about three years old I went to Pennsylvania, while my dad went to Lancaster Bible College. When I was about six, The whole family moved to Surinam, South America. This is where I spent the next eight and a half years of my life.

My father was a pastor and missionary in the Caribbean and the South Americas writing countless books. Then he started an English speaking school in Surinam which quickly grew because everyone wanted there kids to speak English so they sent their kids to our school.

As I started to grow up in South America, I did not think I. Liked being away from my home land. Call it what you will, but I think I just wanted some friends that looked like me and spoke my language. As I learned how to speak Dutch, it became easier to talk to people. I missed McDonalds and Pizza. There was not much in the way of places to go and be entertained like in America, but I am rambling.

I think I am going to skip a few years and get to the meaty parts. Doesn't this sound like a good start for a book? Anyway, in 1987 our family moved back to the USA because my sister was the age to go to College. I went to Westminster Academy and my sister whet to Grove City college. I started to make some new friends, but something was different about the kids in America. I guess I had just been used to a different culture. I picked up the sport of surfing and diving. Before I graduated high school I came in third in the state of Florida for diving!

I need to move right along! From eighteen to present I have spent my life in and out of relationships that have not worked out because I like to attribute it to the way they were brought up on TV and just THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Do not get me wrong, I love my country I just think that it has a lot of problems.

At twenty five years old, I had just parted ways with a person who after we agreed our relationship was not going anywhere decided to go our separate ways. I moved to Nashville to just try something new. I had sang in so many churches growing up and been on TV several times myself in choirs and what not, I decided to have a go at singing country music. As soon as I got there I met a man by the name of Everett Lowell who was with Bridge Records. Signed a contract to sing and called my ex to sort of see how she was doing and found out that before we had parted she got pregnant. Well, I did not believe her and demanded a genetics test and found out that it was a 99% certainty I was the father. We have no relationship my ex and I, but I see my son sometimes and I take care of him and send money for him. You see, she wanted to get rid of him. I do not believe in abortion so I talked her out of it. She agreed that when she had our child she would give him to me because she did not want him. Well, things changed after he was born. He lives with his mother and I see him sometimes. I am a little sad because I want to tuck him to bed and read him stories that would make him smile and hear him call me at night because he has had a bad dream. I have always wanted to be a father and a husband.

So basically, I am tired of getting hurt. I am told I am not a bad looking person with good head on my shoulders and a bright future. I really think you are a beauty. I decided that music is not what I want to do with my life. Just because the countless times I let my heart go; ended with it in pieces, does not mean I do not have to be true to myself and what I have looked at your site it must be six and seven times before I decided to write because I have really not done anything like this for real. Of course, I knew that you could meet people on the Internet, but never thought I would think about some so far away as a prospect!

Oh, I forgot to tell you what I do for a living now. I got a little distracted. After I found out I had a son, I kept on doing my country music thing in Nashville and going to College. MTSU GO RAIDERS! Then, my father started to have heart problems. I after my mother pleading with me to come and help out with stuff down here, family is thicker that music fame and what not, so I moved back home. IT is a good thing I did because I was starting to meet the kind of people who were only my friends so they could profit from me. I have always longed for. To be the best husband and father I can be! I want to one day when I am in heaven to see the generations of children and grandchildren that have been both my and my wife's result. I want to stand up to the challenge of life and do my part to change this world by maybe bring up some future leaders. I want to share what is left of my life with one special lady for whom I will dedicate my life to. I might go and sing music again, but I would like to be secured with my soul mate.

Wow! I keep on getting distracted. I work for a construction company and am working my way up in the company. Since so many people stopped flying after 9/11 There is always a future in building roads. I am almost a foreman or supervisor, so as far as security this is in the bag! I have probably caused you to grow tired of reading I have written so much, but I just want you to know what you might get yourself into. I am for real! I love life and all that it has thrown my way good or bad because it is what has brought me to this moment.

Well, I guess you have ether made up your mind or you haven't. I am not playing games! I take matters of the heart seriously and not for sport. If you think you would rather speak to someone else, then may God be with you and may you find what you seek! This is me.

Always your friend Johan.





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