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Today calling a lawyer to help a veteran who has been locked in a psychiatric ward without a hearing since last June, I discovered a familiar voice on the other end. The lawyer answered the phone with his nickname and I immediately recognized him as the lawyer that had helped to end the zoning discrimination of a mental health clinic that my son, at that time, was getting aide. He also, at one time, represented my son in court hearing on his commitment. This veteran came to my attention from a person living in Virginia who asked a friend from with roots in Milwaukee, but one I first met in Chicago and who now lives in Ohio, for help finding a Wisconsin lawyer.

They say ‘everyone in Milwaukee is related’ and the experience of people growing up in Milwaukee can always find some kind of connection to another Milwaukee native. Although I have had this experience of connection before each time it surprises me. I lived in Madison, Wisconsin for seventeen years but felt that was metropolis. Moving back to Milwaukee in Milwaukee I immediately felt like I was moving to a small town where everyone knows everyone.

There are many explanations for this feeling of living in a small town, the ethnic nature of the city; people who live in Milwaukee tend to stay in Milwaukee; neighborhood taverns and frozen custard stands are everywhere.

Now I realize that like all good things this small town feeling is passing. But while it still here it is time to enjoy and find wonder in Milwaukee.

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