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[ Image of me ] Introduction

As you might already know, my name is David Hedbor. I was born November 30th 1974, in a town called Eksjö in Sweden. My eyes are blue and my hair is blond, just like the archetype Swede (over the years my hair has become less and less blond though).

Since 1st or 2nd grade until the first part of 2000 I wore glasses, as you can see in the image to the left. In April of 2000 I went through LASIK eye surgery. My vision is now in the process of stabilizing. It's very possibly that my right eye will need a touch-up but at least I can see fine without glasses. I'm also about 95% color-blind - I can see colors, although (I presume) to a lesser extent than most other people.

I am fairly neutral when it comes to politics and I'm not religious. You could probably call me an agnostic rather than atheistic since solid proof of some superior being (be it a god or aliens pretending to be gods) could sway my beliefs.

A History of Life

1974-1989: Lillaryd

I lived in Lillaryd, outside Tranås in Småland, Sweden from when I was born till I was just about 15. It used to be a farm before we moved there. We did have both sheep and chickens at times. This is a picture of the main house. There was, in addition to the main house, an ex-barn used as a garage, the chicken and sheep house and a guest house which never was in perfect shape. In all it was a very nice and quiet place to grow up which it wasn't too far away from civilization.

1989-1993: Hätte

In the end of 1989 we moved to my grand-parents old house (they moved to an apartment in downtown Tranås). Here I got a much smaller room, although it had the nice feature of always being cool in the summers. The house itself was bigger than our previous one and it was by the lake Sommen. However I always missed the great, fresh spring water that we had in Lillaryd - especially considering the bad quality of the water in Hätte.

1993-1996: Linköping

In the summer of 1993 I moved to Linköping to study at the university. I lived in two different apartments during this time. One very small one-room one and later a 3 room, 60 m² one. It was nice to finally live on my own.

1996-????: Seattle

In August 1996 I moved to Seattle, WA in the US. For the past year my wife, Stephanie, who comes from Seattle, had lived with me in Sweden. We decided, for numerous reasons, that moving back to her home City/Country was a good idea. Since then we have moved twice and we now live in a nice townhouse in Lynnwood, north of Seattle.

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