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October 15, 2014 By Caroline TeSelle

Truth : What fact about you surprises people the most?

 

greg says_1

I suppose you’d have to ask “the people”. This sounds like a “truth” for those that know us and are reading these “truths”. So feel free to comment… “I dare you”.  What fact about us surprises you the most?

If I had to guess what fact surprises people most about me … here’s my top 5…

1) I can still walk (somewhat normal) after 17 knee surgeries?
2) My children are cute… and I AM the biological father?
3) I was in Playboy Magazine – February 1992. (Feature article)
4) I partied with Dennis Rodman on New Years Eve 1999?
5) I have traveled over 250,000 miles with over 750 people in 15 passenger vans?

Surprised?

 

caroline says_1

I worked at the White House.

Actually, it was my very first job. I had a friend in high school & her dad worked for the Secret Service. Stephenie & I both started working for the White House Historical Association on Saturdays during the school year & almost every day during the summer. It was my freshman & sophomore year of high school, so 1986-1988. Ronald Reagan was the President.

Evelyn {my boss!}, me, Jodi, Lani, Carolyn & Lois {1988}
my coworkers

The White House Historical Association would sell souvenirs & books & Christmas ornaments to visitors after they had just toured the White House.

setting up our booth outside
Stephenie setting up our booth outside
Stephanie ready to sell souvenirs!
Stephenie ready to sell souvenirs!

Back then, the gift shop was inside the White House & sometimes when the weather was really nice we would be outside. Pretty much the coolest job I ever had.

That's me - somewhere in the White House.
That’s me – somewhere in the White House.

Sadly, I never met President Reagan but it was an honor to work in his house.

Two of the Secret Service guys & Nancy {in the background}
Two of the Secret Service guys & Nancy

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  1. cynthia teselle says

    October 15, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    Okay. I might have a few facts people might not know about me.
    1. I dated Steven Bauldwin and Vince Vaughn at the same time. (Vince was a better kisser)
    2. I had to do a foam landing on a private jet landing in Guadalhara Mexico.
    3. I new my husbands half brother in college, 8 years before meeting my husband. Meet eric in LA 1999, meet his half brother in Iowa in 1992 while living in Nebraska. Never found out the connection until 2002.
    4. I got my first tattoo when I was 16. Sorry Dad. hehe

    • Caroline TeSelle says

      October 16, 2014 at 6:56 am

      I didn’t know any of those!!!

  2. Julie @ Girl on the Move says

    October 15, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    I hold a world record for the longest kickball game…and nobody every believes this is true!
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