“This Old House” by C.J. Hribal

A piece by faculty member C.J. Hribal appears at Milwaukee Magazine:

Fifteen years ago, I wrote an essay for this magazine called “A Marriage with Milwaukee,” in which I waxed rhapsodical about my love for the city, and used as a metaphor my own marriage – how the mystery of always discovering new things about your city and your partner would keep you with both forever. As with many things about which you seem certain, I was wrong. The marriage was over six years later, and a decade after that, I was moving out of my lovely arts and crafts house of 24 years, relocating from Milwaukee to (shudder) the wilds of Shorewood.

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