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Origin Story of Sorts

Origin Story of Sorts

Where it all began (kind of)

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Patrick Patino
Jun 11, 2025
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The other day, my wife asked my why I became a lawyer.

To answer that question, I had to go back to my childhood and my earliest memory about death.

My grandparents moved from Chicago to Naperville, Illinois when it was a farm town with a population of roughly 3000 people (today it is over 140k. read more about Naperville). When I was a toddler my parent…

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