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How, and why, I came to Colorado Springs

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Contributed by: Greg Masley on 1/15/2007

I grew up in The OC in Southern California. I had never thought or heard about Colorado Springs until three years ago when my ex-wife, now remarried announced they had bought a house and were going to move my two Amerasian daughters Tatiana, 10, and Paulina, 9, to Colorado Springs.

So on my birthday, March 2, I packed up all my belongings and my computer service business MasleyAssociates.com and drove to Colorado Springs without knowing anybody or ever seeing or hearing about it. I decided to follow the same time that they did because my daughters mean the world to me and I couldn’t take being without their smiling faces even for a short while.

“What’s it like there?” I asked my daughters’ mother. “Oh, it’s just like Orange County,” she said.

With that in mind, you can imagine the look on my face as I hit town and felt the cold temperature and saw snow all over the ground. “In what way is this at all like Orange County?” I thought. On passing through Nevada, my Ford Explorer blew the engine so now I was in a strange town without knowing anybody, any work or even a working car.

It took a lot of work and three years, but I made it. I have a new house two streets from where my daughters live with their mother and a thriving computer business MasleyAssociates.com, and I’ve also made a lot of new local friends. The most important thing is that I get to see my daughters regularly and they know their father loves them so much just topick up and move to a place he’s never seen or heard of.

I do miss the beach, but I think coming to Colorado Springs to stay close to my daughters was the right choice. They know how much their father loves them, and I think that means a lot to daughters.

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