Doug Mileski
After being born in Grand Rapids, Michigan I enjoyed many suburban childhood adventures in the neighborhood until my parents divorce when I was nine. After that, mom moved us to the city itself and I had my first experience interacting with anyone that wasn't white. To this day I find it odd that I was already 10 years old before I realized there were people of color here in the USA. Since then, I have tried hard to distance myself from my mono-cultural roots and really enjoy learning about different people, cultures and customs, some abroad, but many right in my back yard.
From Grand Rapids we moved to southern California, where I stayed a few years, but mom stayed over 25 years, so I never really lost touch with it. I went to Michigan State University for undergrad and for law school. In my undergraduate studies I got sidetracked in my final academic year and didn't so much quit college as just stopped going. It was a few years and a move to New Orleans later before I got back on track to finishing my degree.
It was in New Orleans that I met my wife, who was there for a year as an au pair. Eventually, her year in the US ended and she returned to Sweden. For several years we dated long distance (really really long distance). Finally, after her turning down my three marriage proposals, we broke up only to re-unite six months later. That reunion led me to move to Sweden. I had already been there several times and had studied Swedish at the university in Linkoping, so I could speak the language passably.
While there I applied to law school, she asked me to marry her, I said yes (we exchanged vows in a beautiful 1,000 year old church), I got into law school and we moved to East Lansing, Michigan with 2 bikes, 4 suitcases and 8 boxes.
Now its 11 years later and we have 3 children 8 bikes, more boxes than I care to count and a house filled with stuff.
My working career before law school involved working with traumatic brain injuries and
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From Grand Rapids we moved to southern California, where I stayed a few years, but mom stayed over 25 years, so I never really lost touch with it. I went to Michigan State University for undergrad and for law school. In my undergraduate studies I got sidetracked in my final academic year and didn't so much quit college as just stopped going. It was a few years and a move to New Orleans later before I got back on track to finishing my degree.
It was in New Orleans that I met my wife, who was there for a year as an au pair. Eventually, her year in the US ended and she returned to Sweden. For several years we dated long distance (really really long distance). Finally, after her turning down my three marriage proposals, we broke up only to re-unite six months later. That reunion led me to move to Sweden. I had already been there several times and had studied Swedish at the university in Linkoping, so I could speak the language passably.
While there I applied to law school, she asked me to marry her, I said yes (we exchanged vows in a beautiful 1,000 year old church), I got into law school and we moved to East Lansing, Michigan with 2 bikes, 4 suitcases and 8 boxes.
Now its 11 years later and we have 3 children 8 bikes, more boxes than I care to count and a house filled with stuff.
My working career before law school involved working with traumatic brain injuries and
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