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Cynthia Thayer

August 27, 2018

Well, my mother, of course, said, “Oh, what a waste of your education!” and she thought it was absolutely the craziest thing she’d ever heard. She came to really love it here, though. She came in the summer, every summer for a month.  And my friends, a lot of them, I think were feeling, “Wow, I’d love to do that, but I don’t really have the guts.” And some people thought we were a little bit crazy, but it’s the best thing we ever did.  

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