Karissa Elizabeth Ann Lowell was born after World War Three that took place between May 1, to October 31, 2153 and she was born 119 years later.
Karissa Elizabeth Ann Lowell was born the fourth child but second daughter of Benjamin Lawrence Lowell and his wife, Matte Colleen Stanton.
Karissa had two older brothers, Benjamin Lawrence Junior in 2244, Stanton king in September of 2249, and older sister, Lawreen Cotalier in 2252, and after Karissa was born in 2255, 15 months later a younger sister, Anna Colleen and ten years after Karissa was born a younger brother, Cameron Montgomery.
Benjamin Lawrence was born at Fort Benning, Georgia, Stanton King was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and Lawreen was born in Atlanta, Georgia but Anna Colleen, Cameron Montgomery and Kqrissa were born in Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland.
Where all the children attended Public School, but in 2266, tragedy struck with the death of Karissa's maternal grandfather, and once again 2276, with the death of Benjamin Lawrence, and all of sudden number deaths claimed Karissa's family, beginning with her paternal grandfather, followed by maternal grandmother, her paternal grandmother, first her older sister, younger sister, older brother, younger brother, her mother, her fiance, Roy L Mock and finally her father passed away.
Most of them died as a result of long term side effects of radiation sickness.
In 2270, Most of the world governments were faced with a famine and they had to start rationing out food with food coupons and the governments only included immediate family members and not secondary members.
Most families were left in a dilemma what to do with their extended family members and they had to abandon them.
Karissa Elizabeth Ann Lowell had been living with a paternal uncle and aunt, but they had their own three children, and they could no longer feed her and so they enlisted her into the United Federation of Planets Relocation program and in June of 2270, they drove her to San Francisco International Airport where the USS Republic was waiting to take her to her new on Star Base 12 which promised to give her a new life.
Among the other war orphans were Susan Virginia Bell and Katherine Grace Kelly who had been abandoned by their families for the same reason.
Susan Virginia Bell was 17, Katherine Grace Kelly was 13, and Karissa Elizabeth Ann Lowell had just turned 15 years old.
They were just three of 500 young people abandoned by their families that could no longer provide for them.
Susan Virginia Bell came from New York and Katherine Grace Kelly from Pennsylvania and the three became good friends while traveling to Star Base 12 in 2270.
