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In reply to the discussion: Great-Granddaughter of 'Hidden Figures' Katherine Johnson Earns Perfect Math Score [View all]Your daughter has not only lived a fascinating life but poor girl had a very close call in Senegal - Yikes!! I can just imagine how worried you and your wife were. And here I am, a silly mom, a bit worried about my son's just going hiking/backpacking in the back coastal country of western Scotland for 3 wks.
DFW, you don't need to write a novel, just an autobiography. I'm serious. Your life is full of more interesting stories than anyone's else's I know. Among other stories, who else has had lunch with Howard Dean and Helen Thomas at the same time? I wish you'd kept your posts in your DU journal, because, for me, they were endlessly entertaining. I've a friend in NYC, an Academy award winning sound editor, who has taken my calls when sitting at his big console with some stars, but I've always been more fascinated with the stories of your life, your family members, and the characters you've known. It's not just the people you know and have known, but just as with some other great DUers here, it's your story-telling that pulls us in.