Douglas "Doug" Steven Sunshine

Every memory I have of Doug he is smiling and joyful.. which is honestly a pretty awesome way to be remembered now that I think about it. To me, he started as Jackie's brother.. and then became my math tutor! I have some really fond memories of being a super awkward preteen, sitting next to my friend's "cool brother" trying to learn how to do math. However, it wasn't long until I found out that Doug was a goofy guy (/great tutor!) who loved singing songs he made up about math. The dream tutor! We kept in touch over the years, and when I was away at college, I had to write a paper about someone who lived abroad.. and Doug was literally the only person I knew who was brave enough to move to a different country. I sent him an email and he soon became the focus of my paper about intercultural communications (looking back at our email thread, I cannot believe he answered my questions with a straight face.). He came to our Skype (it was that long ago!) interview wearing a towel on his head from his shower and kept it on the entire time. He was so gracious and gave me hours of his time, answering all of my questions (and really dug into the questions about dating differences abroad!). I took screenshots of the video interview as proof for my professor that I spoke to someone real. So somewhere out there.. on an old 2006 Dell laptop.. is a series of Skype screenshots of us smiling together, and an epic 12 page paper about Doug Sunshine's adventures in Hong Kong. I'm so grateful for the ~30 years that I got to know Doug. Sunshine family, I'm praying for you guys each day and send you all of my love. What a special guy whose smile (and math songs) I'll never forget.