Jeri Elie:  

Life Life. What a category. I need to include, oh 35 years of events. It seems impossible to begin, so I guess I'll skim over the vague parts. . . After one year at MSU, followed by a rather severe falling out with my parents, I moved to East Lansing and lived and worked to become independent in the eyes of the Federal Government. I had some fun and spent a lot of my time on music, going to concerts and hangin out with my friends. I returned to school in '73 and graduated from WMU in '76 with a BS in elementary education. This got me no job offers at the time. I moved that Spring to Ann Arbor, where I have lived ever since. In 1979, I got a job as a nanny/mother's helper/housekeeper for a terrific family here in Ann Arbor. I cared for their two girls for 5 years. The oldest just got married last summer. We all all still very close and I consider them to be part of my family. In 1982, I had a chance to go on vacation to a girlfriend's house in Paris. She was working on her PHD there and asked me to come for a visit. On my first day there, I met a man on the Champs-Elysees. He was from Casablanca, Morocco. We fell in love (at first sight) and two years later, we were married on a rooftop in Casablanca. He returned with me to the US in January of '86. We were married for 12 years. We had two chi...Expand for more