I reached into my graduate student cubbyhole mail box sometime in early Spring of 1983, and pulled out a thick white envelope marked ‘Commencement Information.’ Inside were…

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I decided to call my father. It was the night before I was due to land in Albuquerque, in the Spring of 1979, when I was heading to New Mexico for…

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After seven long summers in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York, I announced to my parents I wasn’t going back. The youngest of three girls…

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