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See the World Through the Heart
When those two pictures, one in front of a United Nations helicopter and the other of a young teenager by her desk in a little apartment in New Jersey were chosen to introduce me as a writer, I laughed. Though that young girl, an immigrant with what were then working-class parents, did imagine herself at ten as a princess riding a horse at night to right the wrongs of her father, the king, she could not foresee that three decades later she would be ready to board a helicopter while working with others to help those who had not had the incredible chances she was offered and taken as she rose to circle the globe.
It is those chances and the adventurous life that opened up before her, that led me to write novels and articles. A biography might have been simpler but certainly would not have been able to capture the colors, the scents, the people, the places, and the events that I somehow wound up experiencing. Even so, it is but a poor rendition of part of the rainbow of history of the second half of the 20thcentury, one that I hope you will leap into through the eyes of its many characters. And, yes, I am continuing to put things down, now going into our 21st century, one so different and, yet so similar to ones before it.