The David B. Abernethy Emeriti/ae Lecture Series: Autobiographical Reflections features distinguished senior faculty members speaking about their lives, careers, and inspirations. Speakers reflect a wide range of teaching and research fields at Stanford, including the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, business, law, engineering, sciences, and medicine.
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My reading of my autobiographical novel, Two Inch Heels, about my 11 week journey backpacking through Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. The novel is divided into 53 chapters, each its own podcast episode, and most containing adult language and some with sexual and drug references.
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I have SDAM and speak to anyone about it on the podcast, including others with the condition, and anyone that shows any interest in learning about it. The purpose of the podcast is to raise awareness of SDAM. I will also talk about my personal views on the podcast when they concern SDAM. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sdampodcast/support
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Claude Steele: A Talk for My Emeriti Colleagues
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On October 23, 2024, Claude M. Steele, Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus and Professor of Psychology, Emeritus in the School of Humanities and Sciences, presented “A Talk for My Emeriti Colleagues.” Through a candid personal chronology of his life, he illuminates how the nature of race had been a central issue from the day of h…
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John Rickford: Speaking My Soul
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On May 15, 2024, John R. Rickford, the J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities, Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, engaged emeriti/ae community members with a lecture and slide presentation, entitled “Speaking My Soul: Race, Life and Language.” Rickford dedicates the lecture to his colleague and good friend David Abernethy who h…
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Myra Strober: Ninety Men and Me
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On February 28, 2024, Myra Strober, Professor of Education, Emerita, and Professor Emerita of Economics (by Courtesy) at the Graduate School of Business, treated an audience of emeriti/ae community members to a wonderful lecture, entitled “Ninety Men and Me: Some Autobiographical Reflections.” Speaking candidly and from the heart, she traced the ar…
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Michael Wald: The Power of Social Context
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On Nov. 15, 2023, Michael S. Wald, the Jackson Eli Professor of Law, Emeritus, reflected on his 57 years at the Stanford Law School combining research, teaching, and university service. He also described professional periods of leave including at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the San Francisco Department of Human Services. He…
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Ann Arvin: Autobiographical Reflections
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On Apr. 19, 2023, Ann Arvin, the Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Emerita, a nationally recognized scientist, spoke to an emeriti/ae audience. She shared some of her experiences growing up on a farm and as a “faculty brat.” She commented on her undergraduate years at Brown University as a p…
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Paul Yock: Tales of a Medical Gizmologist
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On Feb. 15, 2023, Paul Yock, the Weiland Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, Emeritus, treated an audience of emeriti/ae community members to a wonderful lecture, entitled “Tales of a Medical Gizmologist,” about his life and career. After a middle-class upbringing in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, he attended Amherst College and Oxford University…
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Clayborne Carson: Where Do We Go from Here? Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Still Unanswered Question for the World
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In a lecture on Nov. 15, 2022, Clayborne Carson, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor of History, emeritus, spoke in the Emeriti/ae Council’s “Autobiographical Reflections” lecture series. He traced the path of his early life growing up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, undergraduate and graduate studies at UCLA, becoming a “historian” rather…
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Two Inch Heels Episode 53 - Home
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Chapter 53 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. In my final chapter, I complete that last day of my odyssey, returning home with my mom and brother, but already facing at least one change and the challenge to address it.cooperzale
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 52 - Enter the Coopster
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Chapter 52 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. I spend my final couple days in Europe amidst the warm hospitality of the Clay family in Oxford. Finally on the plane flight back to Detroit in the States, I have one last chance to overthink everything, and I ponder who I might be becoming. I have an epip…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 51 - Kate & Company
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Chapter 51 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Still staying with the Clay’s, their daughter Kate invites me to join her and her two best friends seeing the new movie “Godspell”, and I get a glimpse of the world and worldview of three young women, though just two years my junior, with a very different …
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 50 - The Clays
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Chapter 50 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. I return to the Clays in Horspath, who hosted Angie and I at the beginning of our (now my) journey, where I will now spend the final days of my odyssey in their friendly hospitality and good energy. Contains adult language and sexual discussion.…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 49 - London
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Chapter 49 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. After a brief stop at the American Express office in London, I board a bus to Oxford and find myself amongst three drunken young women, returning from an office holiday party, who turn me into the entertainment for an otherwise boring ride home. Contains a…
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William Durham: Surprising Implications of Evolution
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On April 20, with an introduction by Professor Emeritus David Abernethy, Professor Emeritus William Durham presented a lively Abernethy Autobiographical Reflections lecture to Emeriti/ae at the Stanford Faculty Club. Durham’s lecture highlighted three widely distinct aspects of evolution from the biological, to the cultural, to the personal. First,…
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SDAM and metaphysical reality. GUEST: Dalton, "Spiritual White Wolf," Gamertag: "Zen Master."
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 48 - Great Bentley
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Chapter 48 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. I stay for a couple nights with the couple my mom traded houses with three years back when we spent the summer in England in 1970, whom I had never before met. Troubled by the dynamics of that family and particularly the husband’s approach to marriage and …
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 47 - Lance
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Chapter 47 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. On the big ferry across the stormy North Sea returning to England, I have a close encounter with what seems like a bonafide hippie, a rock musician from Los Angeles, who draws me and then a young woman into his orbit and we make the most of his bottle of D…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 46 - North Sea
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Chapter 46 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. I make my sad departure from my comrades, the Christian Youth Hostel, and Lady Amsterdam herself, and on my own again board the big ship to take me to England, and leave the Continent, and all its memorable people and places behind. Contains adult language…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 45 - Intimate
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Chapter 45 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Buzzing on Butch's "killer" giggly hash, I have a close encounter with Gwendolyn at the Van Gogh Museum and a more discomforting encounter with the BOAC ticketing agent. Contains adult language, drug use and sexual references.…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 44 - High
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Chapter 44 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. I awake the next morning at the youth hostel to a brazen offer to smoke hash even before I’m out of bed, which accepted, sends me on a day’s adventure thru Amsterdam with my three backpacker comrades, beginning with a second tour of the Heineken brewery. C…
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Two Inch HeelsChapter 43 - Otto and Anne
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Chapter 43 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Deliciously buzzed from the free beer at the Heineken Brewery, I wander through the streets of Amsterdam on my own taking care of business, and happen to encounter the Anne Frank house museum. I take the tour and am drawn into the life of Anne and her dad …
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 42 - Heineken Brewery
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Chapter 42 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. On a cold and rainy morning in Amsterdam, I accompany my three new comrades to the morning tour of the Heineken brewery, a must see for my ilk, if for no reason other than lots of free beer at the end of the tour. Contains adult language and sexual discuss…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 41 - Amsterdam
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Chapter 41 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. I arrive in this cold, rainy, but beautiful and friendly city and find sanctuary at the Christian Youth Hostel, which is a haven for hash and hippies and gives me some needed solace from my loneliness. Contains adult language and sexual discussion.…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 40 - Hugo
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Chapter 40 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Tired, sad and homesick, on an overnight train from Munich to Amsterdam on a frigid night, I encounter a man who looks into my soul, sees my loneliness, and then reaches out to give me a little taste of home at his home with his girlfriend and her two kids…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 39 - Angelica
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Chapter 39 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. I return to Munich to stay with my young adult family friends Angelica & Helmut, and wrestle with my attraction to Angelica and the boundaries between friends and lovers. Contains adult language and a good deal of sexual discussion.…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 38 - Direction Home
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Chapter 38 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Having left Grindelwald behind, I finally face the realization that I am heading home, with all the positive and negative feelings that engenders, including comparing where I was back at the beginning of my odyssey to where I am now. Contains adult languag…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 37 - Beth
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Chapter 37 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. I sadly part with most of my backpacker comrades in wonderful little Grindelwald and take the train down to Interlaken to begin my journey back to London and then back to the States. But lucky for me, I am joined by one of those comrades and we share some …
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 36 - Triumvirate
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Chapter 36 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Monika, Ragna and Beth return from the Sphinx Observatory with tales of their journey, and with an apparent new connection between Monika and Beth, and I regret not going along. And then Monika and Ragna finally bid us goodbye. Contains adult language and …
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 35 - Snow Day
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Chapter 35 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. While the young women in our circle pay the fare to take the Cog Railway up to the Sphinx Observatory near the summit of the Jungfrau, the guys and I play in the snow with the local kids and I have a close encounter with Michael. Contains some adult langua…
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What do you think of the SDAM?
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I ramble. I invite you to ramble with me. sdampodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sdampodcast/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sdampodcast/support
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Lubert Stryer: Light and Life
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On Feb. 16, 2022, Lubert Stryer, the Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, Emeritus, delivered a lecture entitled “Light and Life.” Born in China in 1938, he shared memories of his childhood in Shanghai during WWII. US visas for his family came through a few months before Shanghai was taken over by Mao. After high school in New York, he graduated at th…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 34 - Virgin
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Chapter 34 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. I finally have my encounter with the awesome mountains, plus a second encounter with Ragna, and one even with the Goddess herself. Contains adult language and sexual discussion.cooperzale
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 33 - Down the Hill
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Chapter 33 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Most of us hostel residents go down the hill to the local tavern for their daily happy hour, which gives me the opportunity for an initial close encounter with Ragna, and an opportunity for me to partner with Derrick of all people. Contains adult language …
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 32 - Grindelwald
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Chapter 32 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. I finally make it to my little paradise in the mountains and engage with the hostel's cast of fellow travelers, some new and some, surprisingly, that I have met before. It’s paradise doubly so, because they actually have hot showers! Contains adult languag…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 31 - Under the Alps
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Chapter 31 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Frayed and homesick after eight weeks of travel, mostly on my own, I take a long train ride from Venice through a long tunnel under the southern Alps headed to the anticipated winter wonderland of Grindelwald. Contains adult language and sexual discussion.…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 30 - Venice
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Chapter 30 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. The “lagoon city” lives up to its reputation as an unusual place. I have a brief acquaintance with an older guy, and also witness a unique moment between Jen and Sarah. Contains adult language and sexual discussion.…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 29 - Sophia
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Chapter 29 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. One of my many memorable train encounters, I share a compartment with a forty-something Italian businesswoman on the train from Florence to Venice interested in hearing the stories of my travels to pass the time, and who ends up sharing a very intimate sto…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 28 - Corridors
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Chapter 28 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. My final full day in Florence, I escape the company of the ‘boys’ to walk the Vasari Corridor, a Florentine must see recommended by my comrade Morgan back in Rome. On my return to the hostel I reencounter the Clevelanders, who remind me it’s Thanksgiving i…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 27 - Firenze
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Chapter 27 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. I get to Florence, whose real name is the much more suave “Firenze”, to find Trix and her crew and Jen and her partner Sarah. I meet three guys from Cleveland, who I dub ‘the boys’. It all culminates in a night of dining, discussion and introductions at ou…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 26 - Trix
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Chapter 26 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. On the crowded train from Rome to Florence Italy, I encounter a very diminutive and charismatic young woman with the wildest hair yet, and find sanctuary and connection in a compartment with her and five other female backpackers. Contains adult language an…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 25 - Morgan
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Chapter 25 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. My last couple days in Rome are spent with nerdy academic Morgan, who I have a real thing for, more crush than bromance, and I ponder the nature of attractions. We check out some of the ancient places in the “eternal city”, some not so impressive in the mi…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 24 - Inner Sanctums
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Chapter 24 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Acting on Morgan’s suggestion, I end up spending some 20 minutes nearly alone in the Sistine chapel, pondering this sanctuary to a religion and god I have chosen not to believe in. But then looking down on the Eternal City I realize I am burnt out on seein…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 23 - Roma
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Chapter 23 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. My second day in Rome, I have an unexpected offer from Jen’s partner Sarah, plus a long conversation with Morgan, solidifying both friendships. Contains adult language.cooperzale
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 22 - Comrade Jen
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Chapter 22 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. On the train to Rome and finally checked into its youth hostel, on my own again, I encounter a number of young fellow travelers with various agendas, including a bigger than life young woman and her more low key travel partner. Contains adult language.…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 21 - Bar-sur-Aube
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Chapter 21 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. In the swan song of my travels with Steve, we hitchhike east from Paris to Basel, and end up sleeping outside again, but unlike in Spain, under much more difficult conditions. But even that is not the worst thing that befalls me.…
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Two Inch HeelsChapter 20 - Rue Titon
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Chapter 20 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Back in Paris, Steve and I leave Walter behind and luckily find room back at the nice Rue Titon hostel we had stayed at before in Paris. He and I confirm that our paths forward are in different directions, but decide to spend our last couple days in Paris …
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 19 - Walter
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Chapter 19 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Now crossing the border back into France, and returning to hitchhiking, Steve and I get a ride from an older German businessman who ends up buying us dinner, driving us all the way to Paris, and putting us up for the night. The next morning we learn distur…
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Two Inch Heels Chapter 18 - Madrid
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Chapter 18 of my autobiographical novel of backpacking thru Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. Steve and I spend a couple days in Spain’s capital and visit to the Prado museum, and I'm enthralled by the stunningly bizarre “Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch and also the more gripping realism of Francisco Goya’s work. Contains adult lang…
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