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Origin Story #1

Origin Story #1

It was the summer of 1951...

Emily Sanders Hopkins
May 30, 2024
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Origin Story #1

One of his earliest memories is on a sailboat in the Hudson River, on a day when the bottle green water sparkled as it churned. The emotion he associates with this early memory is frustration. He’d clutched his mother’s soft thigh in hopes of be…

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