MICHIGAN CITY — In 2003, Nora Ryszka and her husband, John, left Michigan City, believing “there was no life for us in Michigan City. Anywhere but here.”
After establishing successful careers in art and education, and starting a family in Phoenix, Arizona, they had a change of heart.
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