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<blockquote data-quote="Tacomallini" data-source="post: 1518505" data-attributes="member: 624355"><p>Born in Aurora and have lived 2 plus decades in Oswego/Aurora, in two different stints. 10 years in Chambana in 3 different stunts - undergrad while serving in Army National Guard, left thanks to the Iraq fiasco and spent 1 year in Baghdad with 233rd MP Co. out of Springfield, back to CU afterwards for a while, a couple years in Chicago and back to UIUC for grad school. U of I did me a huge solid and kept me “on the books” as a student even though I’d completed coursework, so I could get a student visa to study for a year in Barcelona as a 27 year old exchange student. Met my wife in Spain, completed a mountain of paperwork and she moved to US on fiancée visa. Happily married now (10 years in August) in Tacoma w 2 kids, waiting for my wife to give us the green light to move back to Spain. Not holding my breath on that, lol, but would make the move in a heartbeat. Hoping rumored Gonzaga-IL home and home series pans out, or Western region NCAA seed cause I haven’t seen the beloved play in person since #7 IL beat #4 Michigan State at the Assembly Hall on 2/6/2001 with Dickie V inthe house. Enjoyed reading this thread fellow Illini fans!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tacomallini, post: 1518505, member: 624355"] Born in Aurora and have lived 2 plus decades in Oswego/Aurora, in two different stints. 10 years in Chambana in 3 different stunts - undergrad while serving in Army National Guard, left thanks to the Iraq fiasco and spent 1 year in Baghdad with 233rd MP Co. out of Springfield, back to CU afterwards for a while, a couple years in Chicago and back to UIUC for grad school. U of I did me a huge solid and kept me “on the books” as a student even though I’d completed coursework, so I could get a student visa to study for a year in Barcelona as a 27 year old exchange student. Met my wife in Spain, completed a mountain of paperwork and she moved to US on fiancée visa. Happily married now (10 years in August) in Tacoma w 2 kids, waiting for my wife to give us the green light to move back to Spain. Not holding my breath on that, lol, but would make the move in a heartbeat. Hoping rumored Gonzaga-IL home and home series pans out, or Western region NCAA seed cause I haven’t seen the beloved play in person since #7 IL beat #4 Michigan State at the Assembly Hall on 2/6/2001 with Dickie V inthe house. Enjoyed reading this thread fellow Illini fans! [/QUOTE]
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