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While in high school (Class of 1976) I attended art class and did a drawing of an elf like blonde female model whose picture I found in some magazine. I was picked to do an art display of my work by my art teacher at Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada. My English teacher had lost a red headed daughter that year to a terrible conspiracy to collect on a life insurance policy on a casino employee. She had picked me and another English student John to receive a small scholarship in the name of her dead murdered daughter Michelle Mitchell.

She had seen my art show after coming back from the months' long hiatus she took of grieving for her daughter who had been murdered on my birthday of February 24 in 1976.

She had mentioned that she would like to see the rest of my art work. I took this collected art work to her home in northern Reno and while we thumbed through it she said that the drawing I did of the blonde elf model reminded her of Michelle. So, I gave her the chalk drawing.

I got two BAs in Philosophy and History (80, 81) at the University of Nevada, Reno and of course often thought of Mrs. Mitchell, my art show, and Wooster High as I would sometimes run into students from my high school now attending college or just around town.

I got a MA in Librarianship from the University of Denver in 1984. I had wanted to do something for victims of violent crimes by improving the quality and quantity of materials accessible in libraries to help them work through the legal system as well as with dealing with everyday life. I had been drawn to the University of Denver by a Law Librarian whose work was trying to make the law more accessible to lay people. The man's name was Al Coco.

Anyway, I got a job in Belmont, CA in 1984 working for Information Access Company (IAC) which placed me close to relatives in Northern California and I thought fit in with my career goals. There I noticed a married blonde woman whose appearance was very close to the picture I drew of elfish model. I was attracted to another blonde woman at IAC Sandy but never got past the talking stage into a date with her.

I decided to go to law school at the University of Minnesota Law School in 1986. (Class of 1989) There in my Civil Procedure Class my First Year of Law School was another spitting image of this elfish looking blonde model I had drawn in high school. The Law Student's name was Mary Jane. I could not take my eyes off her. I asked her out in my very clumsy way but was gently turned down. We had a lot of classes together and also were both Student Directors in Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners.

I went to a Law Librarian convention in San Francisco around 1992 after losing my contract as a law library assistant (cannot remember my exact job title) at the University of Minnesota. I had pushed too hard about being honest with my desire to do something about a niche I saw in materials for victims of violent crimes in libraries. The University of Minnesota Law Library was a huge library but had almost nothing at the time that would help survivors of crimes deal with the legal system. They also played unfairly and met my criticisms of the library's shortcomings for information of victims of violent crime by saying that I needed mental health counseling. Which I thought was just a dirty trick. Many of which I heard about while in law school. Mental health labels can be abused as a weapon as can almost anything else if you have the power to abuse this.

My supervisor Suzanne (who had also been in the same graduating Law School Class as I 1989) from the U of MN Law Library was at the Law Library convention in San Francisco. So was the married blonde woman from IAC who still worked in Belmont, CA in marketing of IAC's products. One of which was the Legal Resource Index (or something like that). They sold Legal Resource Index to law libraries.

Suzanne took one look at this blonde woman from IAC and asked her "What are you doing here?" She mistook her for the woman Mary Jane (U of MN Law School, Class of 1989) I would often stare at while in law school who reminded me so much of that chalk drawing I did in high school. Many students and professors noticed how I would lose myself in looking at Mary Jane. Mary Jane had always been very friendly towards me and never complained about my interest in her.

I continued my fight for improving materials for survivors of crimes accessible in libraries throughout the 1990s and well into the 2000s and had many successes and many failures. I was nominated for many Marquis Who's Who volumes from 1992 through 2002. Most of this fight though came from the direction my life had been given by my experiences with Michelle Mitchell's mother and that chalk drawing I had done of the elfish blonde woman from some magazine sometime in 1976.