awesome! they hail from irvington, nj. alise was born to young parents (mom was swedish and dad was american) who got pregnant with her when dad was on vacation in europe. he brought her mom back with him and vowed all the good stuff (that he'd take care of her and their child, etc etc) but dad wasn't as ready to be a dad as he pretended. he was caught having affairs and just generally not being there for alise/her mom. mom took off to go back home when alise was around 4 and she was left with her dad from there who consequently left her with her aunt more often than not. i'm game for whatever happened after that. alise is 27/almost 28 so he could have been the product of an affair or came after alise's parents broke up. i'm down to discuss whatever!
alise moved to san fransisco pretty much as soon as she graduated from high school and he could have moved whenever you'd like, really. we'd have a cousin line with ~evelyb so we can say their dad was born in san fransisco and just moved to nj when he got older.