Crossposted from the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office Facebook 

Deputy Prosecutor Anela Ramic’s earliest memories are of her parents sitting her down with an Etch A Sketch to teach her the English alphabet before she started preschool in the United States.

“My parents barely spoke English, and I didn’t know how to write anything, so it was just hours and hours of me crying, and them crying, but they were trying to show me the basic letters because that’s how it was in their country. You learned how to read and write before you even started school,” Anela recalls. “My earliest memories were of my parents caring so much about us succeeding and getting on the right path in this country, but it was not easy.”

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