Susan's life was not always as chaotically colorful as it happens to be right now. But that's because she hasn't always lived in Puerto Rico.
Susan was born and raised in Wethersfield, Connecticut -- a quiet, peaceful little town in picturesque New England. Life was fairly predictable in Wethersfield. Susan went to school with her four brothers and sisters, was laughed at, picked on, bullied -- all the usual things that happen to kids who don't fit in. And then she went home and found solace in the pages of a book.
When she tired of reading, Susan would stroll through the village cemetery, at peace among the tombstones. No one ever bothered her there. Happily alone, she would read, write in her journal, and think about the lives of those whose names were etched on the stone markers. Even though she didn't know it then, she was becoming a writer.
After graduating from Wethersfield High School, Susan went to Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania to study American history. One thing she had learned in her eighteen years was that even though she hated public school, she loved her town -- its history, colonial houses, churches, and cemeteries. But then you know what happens in college. The mind expands, and with it, one's dreams.
After graduation from college, Susan began a Master's Degree in Spanish, worked as a waitress (post graduate reality), saved up some money, and then left the following year for Seville, Spain.
That's when life started getting really interesting. She fell in love. Not with a Spaniard as she had secretly hoped, but with a philosophical scientist from India named Govind Nadathur. As Pastor Marcoux said when he married them four years later in Susan's church in Wethersfield, "Our God is a God of surprises. Unpredictable, but wonderfully marvelous!"
Susan and Govind, moved from Spain to California, and then to the Caribbean. Each move brought with it trials, tears, challenges, and joys. They celebrated the birth of their daughter, Sita, in Santa Barbara. Agonized over Govind's ten-year battle with cancer in Puerto Rico. And lived with the Gypsies in southern Spain. In each experience they found victory in perseverance and unity in loneliness. They don't quite fit into the culture of Puerto Rico, which has been their home for the past eighteen years. But in not fitting in, they belong. Susan, along with her husband, and daughter, are three loving misfits in a chaotically colorful world.
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