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19 centralight spring '15 Dara (Anchors) Sundberg Dara (Anchors) Sundberg may have been one of a select few women with a penchant for professional wrestling at CMU. Pro wrestlers were her obsession, and she knew a "five-star frog splash" from a "reverse frankensteiner." So perhaps it's only fitting that she is a mother to four boys and takes a ringside seat at several amateur matches in her Cedar Springs living room daily. Sundberg, a recreation, parks and leisure services administration graduate, struggled for a few months to find a job after she left Mount Pleasant. She moved in with her parents in Lowell for a time and eventually got a job working in the accounting department at Van Andel Arena, then at the Douglas J Aveda Institute in Grand Rapids. That's when she bought her first house – an achievement she's still proud of. But life had other plans. Sundberg was bored and on the social media site MySpace a few months after buying her new home when she met Chris Sundberg. She offered to foster some kittens he found in his yard. He fixed some leaky pipes in her basement, and they were engaged six months later. They married, sold Dara's house and brought four boys into the world. "When we started, I was thinking two – maybe three," she says. "Life just happens. I wanted them kind of close together. I was convinced it would condense the crazy years." Now an at-home mom, Sundberg has embraced a new reality – one that requires plenty of patience and a good sense of humor. "It's everything everybody writes poems about – it's wonderful and glorious and beautiful," she says. "It's also crazy and maddening and you want to tear your hair out." Sundberg, a Type 1 diabetic who worried primarily about finding a job with good health insurance after graduation, has not only managed her disease through four pregnancies, she's happy to have had standard deliveries and healthy children. Actually, make that five pregnancies. In November, the Sundbergs went in for the 20-week anatomy ultrasound. Friends and family placed friendly bets on whether their fifth would be another boy or break the streak. "The tech asked if we wanted to know the gender, and I was like, 'Yes, please,'" she says. "They freeze-framed it a bit, and Chris is like, 'Oh my God.' And I'm like, 'Five for five.'" • "It's everything everybody writes poems about – it's wonderful and glorious and beautiful. It's also crazy and maddening and you want to tear your hair out." 19 centralight spring '15 PHOTO BY STEVE JESSMORE

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