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My history is not atypical of many Americans: born in the midwest, educated in the East, and now living in the West.

My early years were shared between Des Moines, Iowa and Cincinnati, Ohio. Shortly after I was born on May 28, 1942 in Des Moines, my father, Lawrence, was drafted into the United States Navy. I was named for my father's younger brother who died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of 24.

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We moved to Boston briefly where my father enrolled in Naval officer training school before being sent to the south Pacific. He served as a communications officer for the remainder of World War II on an island called Eniwetok where the first hydrogen bomb was detonated a decade later.

During my father's absence, my mother, Miriam, and I lived in Cincinnati where her mother, Mollie Spigel, also lived.

Prior to moving to Cincinnati, Mollie had lived in Norfolk, Virginia, where she raised three children