Theirs is a love story.
And a success story -- a tale of how far up people can climb once they hit rock bottom and decide to change their lives.
John Skidds, 43, and Roberta Cockrum, 37, were married Saturday at Island United Methodist Church, where Collette Gould, incoming president of the MCSA Board of Directors, is pastor. She performed the ceremony, which was attended by about 30 family members and friends.
After the ceremony, the newlyweds held a reception at MCSA, the place where they met and fell in love in 2009.
“He was living upstairs in the men’s dorm and I was in the women’s
