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It was such a treat to have lunch with Dad when I returned to Denver for a visit. He's pointing something out to me near his office on the grounds of the Veterans Administration Hospital in this favorite photo.
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Traveling in Europe with Mom and Dad

The year after graduating from Racliffe, spent preparing to pursue fashion journalism, Mom and Dad came to Europe for a travel adventure.

I flew from Paris to Frankfurt to meet them, and in a gorgeous rented Mercedes, we drove up the Rhine all the way to Denmark. 

Dad photographed the tulips, and we stopped at almost every castle we passed.   Best was exploring with Dad the dungeons below Elsinore, where Shakespeare set Hamlet.

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In Cophenhagen, we shopped. 
See Dad (above) holding the bag in the main shopping street after a wonderful spree when Mom and I each bought a single piece of special jewelry.  Mom and Dad posed (top right) on a walk through Amsterdam, and top left, in a drizzle, after touring the thatched house of Ann Hathaway, who was close with Shakespeare.

Dad was such an adventurer. 
At left, you see him climbing into a hydrofoil in Denmark bound for Sweden.  We flew over the water to Malmo, spent the afternoon exploring, and zipped on back.

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We parted in Paris,
but not before Mom and Dad checked out where I would be spending the two steamiest months of the coming summer, a charming skylit garret that could have been a stage set from Puccini's 'La Boheme.'

At the time I was up for adventure, delighted that when visiting the fashion magazine, Elle, its imposing managing editor offered me a summer stint as an assistant, a position they call 'stagiare.'

The pay was a pittance, covering 'Le Metro,' coffee, and not much else. But at the time, I had nary a qualm about 14 months in Europe instead of Columbia Business School.  As my Dad would have put it, "not by a long shot." 


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