Where does your story begin?
Everyone has a story to tell. The story of your childhood neighbor might start off very familiar and then become something completely unknown to you after years of separation. Your spouse’s story might have started off very different from your own, but now it is so intertwined with yours that you can’t remember when it was foreign to you. We were all born in the village, town, farm, or city we were for reasons that aren’t easy to articulate. Our lives have gone in the directions they have for events that have happened within and outside of our control. Whether we have been here for generations, a couple decades, or months, we all are part of the strong fabric of our community. This page is dedicated to the people we know and have met here in the rural communities of Southeastern Minnesota and West Central Wisconsin and how our stories intersect and share common threads.
Mariana & Guillermo
Guillermo: “When I first came here in 1999, I had a girlfriend in Mexico. We were dating for a year. I wanted to marry her and I could only get the money for a proper wedding if I worked in the states. I left without telling her because I [...]