I am that rare breed, a native, third-generation Californian born in Los Angeles. Over the years, our family continually moved southward, first to Orange County and then to San Diego County the year I left for college. And leave I did, traveling by myself to Nairobi, Kenya to attend an international university. It was there that I met my husband, David, who was living in the Netherlands at the time and who fortuitously ended up at the same university. After two years in Kenya we returned to San Diego, where I finished up my undergraduate degree. I attended graduate school at San Diego State University, studying Art History.
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