In 1946, newly returned from serving in southeast Asia in World War II, a Swedish farmboy from a northeastern Nebraska town of roughly a thousand people married a 20 year old Bostonian, daughter of Greek immigrants. They settled about two hours south of that small Nebraska town in Lincoln, where the man took a job with the railroad—a job he held for nearly 40 years. Two sons came in rapid succession, one in 1947 and another in 1948. Then nine years later a daughter came. Out of this remarkably unlikely and deeply American union, a family was made.
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