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Even though I switched to JBS in seventh grade, I've always felt a closeness to my class at MI. After all, I went there for nine years!! After I graduated from JBS, I went to Wellesley for two years, and graduated from Washington University. Got married to Sam Dardick in 1964 during my senior year break. We lived on Rosebury Avenue in an apartment, then on Westgate Avenue in a house in Parkview Place. During the 1960s I became very involved in a group called Freedom of Residence, helping wealthy Blacks integrate the suburbs of St. Louis. Left St. Louis in December 1970 and flew to Europe with Sam and our three little kids. Bought a VW van and drove for 9 months to India. Came back to states in February, 1973 and drove west, ending up in the Nevada City/Grass Valley (northern California) area, where we bought 34 acres of raw land near the wild west town of North San Juan. Started practicing "voluntary simplicity." Became an organic farmer, then a professional freelance writer, and at age 50 went to the University of San Francisco for my MA degree, and became a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. It's been an interesting life, very different from the way I was raised in St. Louis, but very enlightening, that's for sure.
