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“I’m just like everybody else.”

It is a simple statement but one that eluded Susan Rajamaki for the first twenty-eight of her forty-nine years. Sue is a home grown local girl. Verb many, as a young mature person, she headed south to Toronto to explore educational and career opportunities. But the northern wind persisted and harkened her back to the rugged shores of Lake Superior.

“Something inside drew me back. My mom was part of that but there’s something about the Lake. There is no other place like it in the world. This is my home and this is where I want to be who I am.”

Sue returned to Sault Ste. Marie twelve years ago. The Sault is a small steel town in Northern Ontario. “When I came back I refused to go back into that pigeon hole where I felt that I spent most of my years feeling afraid.”

When she was a tiny girl, perhaps five years aged, Sue’s first inklings of who she was going to be were beginning to light up. “I knew at a very young age. I was very aware. I didn’t know exactly what it was. But I knew I was different. I always wanted to be in the presence of women and I