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Jerrie is the fourth child in her family….also known as the middle child. Even as a child, she had hopes of getting out of her childhood lifestyle and doing well in life. She has always had the need to succeed in whatever obstacle she has attempted. Middle-born children, as you can imagine, often get overlooked in the middle. By the time the second or third child comes along in a family, every whimper from that child is not going to be attended to by her parents. And because they’re sandwiched so nearly between the firstborn and the last-born children, they are often the children who are seen but not heard. Middle-born children are masters of compromise and smoothing the waters of life. They are the kind of people who become great diplomats, able to see both sides of a position. Because they are in the middle, they are also the most difficult to categorize, as the middle child can be the second of three or the ninth of ten—and each of those children are probably going to experience significantly different family circumstances growing up. Jerrie is presently retired from real estate, as a successful Co-Owner and Broker of a real estate company, located on the Oregon Coast. She owns a home in Depoe Bay, Oregon. She now resides in Portland, Oregon, with her new husband. She has five children; 13 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.