They can have met in Chicago. I'm going to have him have grown up there. Most of my kids save for the one right above this comment are from there or mini towns with one street light XD. Maybe they at one point went to the same college? I don't know if she went when she was there. Could have been awhile before he had... no I still can't land on a name, I keep trying.
He doesn't want his own kids right the now, his niece drives him crazy enough for the moment. I think however he's trying to stay as far as possible away from anything that resembles his past wealth life.
Maybe I will flesh out his artsy fartsy a bit more. Professor and side hustle. We shall see. But I am a threading junky at the moment. When I don't want to stay curled up in my bed and not look at anything that's a screen.