Susan experienced childhood in Lincoln, Nebraska, the heartland of the USA.
She played in the corn
fields as a kid, and seeing miles and miles of land extending the extent that she could see. One day her close relative took her to see the 1997 motion picture Titanic featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. She wondered about seeing the tremendous sea. It was something she had never observed. She swung to her close relative to state, "I'm going on a ship like that one day, aunt."