I am Darla Kaye Wynne, a resident of Great Falls, SC for 20+ years. I decided to do this site because I found myself going against my own morals and values by form of tacit consent. I was watching many things occur that I knew was wrong, but I simply didn’t want to get involved so I said and did nothing. My actions made the saying, “ first they came for” by Martin Niemoller a true statement for me. My silence had given the impression I was vulnerable and would do nothing when they started coming after me again (I will elaborate more later in bio). At first, I only wanted to deal with my issues and be done. December changed that. One of the Mayor’s relatives is on my Facebook page and all of sudden their nonsense was in my feed and their threats of harming and desiring to destroy several, (8) to be exact; lives, was a little more than I could stomach right after Christmas. So I said this, “I’m personally about sick of this drama. Your brother in law is a politician and if you all can’t handle community dissent then get out of politics.” That simple statement turned nasty quick and I knew then the original format I had planned for this site had changed, because change has to occur within this community for it to prosper and I don’t believe it’s going to happen until we bring light into this darkness that stays within our community. So with that being said, I’m laying my life out so I don’t empower those that would harm me if they could.

I was born to a share cropper’s daughter, she had 13 siblings. My father wasn’t a part of my life for any length that was positive in nature. I was born in 1964 to a 16 year old child whom I called mom and when I was little, totally worshipped, until my life changed. My father and her 2nd husband physically abused mom, creating a single mom of 2 by 1970; during a time when landlords could refuse to rent to single women with children. Women’s rights weren’t what they are today.

We were living in Dallas, Texas, I was 6 years old and my mom & Aunt Diane shared a small apartment (both were single with children) and worked 2 jobs to support us all. Our babysitter, lived next door and their boyfriend had his best friend, a 33 year old man, living with them, which when they needed to go someplace he watched us. He raped me, penetrated me at the age of 6. My mom never explained to me why we were the ones in trouble and had to leave in the middle of the night until a few years before she died, but even then she was afraid to discuss it because she stated being a single mom, married twice and that molestation could have caused her to lose her children and possibly go to jail. She was the criminal, not the rapist. That conversation mended our relationship and helped me understand how strong my mom was in all that she overcame.

By the time I was 9 years old, my mom had already settled into a new marriage and I was being sent to my father’s for the summer and any time I was an issue for this marriage, which I was still struggling with the rape I had experienced, but it wasn’t allowed to be discussed, so it was never dealt with as a child properly. I became a problem child.

My father was a heavy drinker, drug user, dead beat dad, cheater on his ex and his current wife, user and abuser. All around POS. He event became a minister and abused you to teach you the Bible. He would get drunk and do things to me sexually. He once sent me to the drive in theater with a young man who’s father had just gotten out of prison for being a rapist, knowing this man was going to rape me in front of his child at the drive in movie theater. I began to hate both of my families at this point. The abuse by my father began at 9 and ended during my 1st marriage to a man I met 3 times. My father disposed of me and a debt he owed at the same time, but not before the wedding party beat his ass for trying to have sex with me in his wife’s sister’s bathroom.

At the moment I got married, I became legally an adult. I thought my life was going to change, but I was just a child and extremely naive. Little did I know that the world was full of predators just waiting for me. I was divorced at the age of 14, remarried at 15, divorced again by 19 and on my way to Alaska after leaving my 3rd husband and remarried for a fourth time at the age of 22. I am still legally married to my 4th husband but have not been with him since 01/03/93. When I left him is when I came to the south again.

My father married me off because I was arrested in California for prostitution. My 3 husbands whored me out. I met my 4th husband at a strip club and a dance contract is how I got to Alaska. After I moved in with #4, I got my GED, then a secretarial science diploma and went to college at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. I recieved a CNA, CMA, EMT, flight medic & phlebotomist certifications. I owned the 1st store in Fairbanks that was Pagan and that carried gay and lesbian literature. My life began changing for the better once I began getting educated.

My mom was living in North Carolina when I left my 4th. Husband and I wanted to try and repair our relationship. But originally I brought some bad luggage and while she was in North Carolina we began our journey of repairing our relationship, but we didn’t complete it until after she moved to Florida and started coming to visit me in my current location of Great Falls, SC, which I moved here in the late part of 98 or early part of 99. Moving to this town matured me, made me stronger.

Crack was not a part of the Alaska landscape when I was there, but it was thriving here and the only things I knew about it was what I saw in the news. So, shortly after my arrival the town and I had issues over 3 crack dealers at a stop sign that turned into a religious court battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court, which I won in every venue and it took then until Chief Rice to deal with those individuals because someone other than me had an issue with them. I’m not going to focus on my court case but am going to provide you a link to it, in case you want to know about it because this is a full disclosure of me. I will not empower anyone by giving them an opportunity to out me in any form. I’m the only one that knows my story, so I’m the only one qualified to tell it.

I will be turning 61 in 2025. I have worked as a paralegal, private investigator, CNA, CMA, farm and feed manager, handy gal, caregiver and a PSO since I been living in Great Falls. I have volunteered as an EMT and pagan prison ministry minister. I do web and graphic design and my favorite hobby is wildlife rehabilitation and I’m listed on the SCDNR list for small mammal. I have gone on to receive 2 degrees, a BS in Homeland Security and a MS in Criminal Justice and am 5 classes away from a doctorate in forensic psychology. I have 2 other websites and providing a link below.

So, that’s me in a nutshell. I support equality and diversity and attempt to respect all people as they are without judgement. I supported the Black Lives Matter Movement, and continue to support the African American in equality in all means, as well as Native Americans, Hispanic, Asians, immigrants, religious freedom, LGBTQ community, climate change, nature & animal preservation, and women’s rights. I probably support a lot of other things but just can’t think of them at the moment, but equality is important to me and I do not approve of book bans. I have voted both sides of the isle, but I have vowed to never, ever vote Republican again and am a registered Democrat, but I also have a CWP and my fath is nature based, so I’m not sure I align 100% with either party, but I cannot support the hate that spews from maga supporters and should I ever witness violence towards another based on that hate, I would and will step in and up because I will not be a tacit participant in that behavior. I sincerely hope this has helped you to understand and know me, as well as know my intentions are not to harm this town or its people, but to assist it in growing in the many ways it needs to so that it can reach its potential to insure the youth have a future outside of alcoholism, drug abuse, hate and criminality.

The last thing I want to make clear about me is that I have no regrets, I’m unapologetic for my survival and the means it took for me to survive. I am not ashamed, embarrassed nor do I feel guilty. I would not change anything of my past simply because everything I have experienced has created the woman I am today and I like me.