I was born in a small village Bresnik in the country that doesn’t exist any more, Yugoslavia. As a high school dropout in 1972, I came to the U.S. For more than 3 decades, I performed various jobs in a manufacturing business in the Chicago land area. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I had visited every state in my adopted country, U.S., every province in Canada, and visited Mexico on two occasions. I reside in Countryside, IL with my wife, Anita, and daughter, Gwen. I have another daughter, Zorica, from my first marriage.