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Due to my diagnosis of ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease in January, 2004, I have had to reinvent myself for the umpteenth time. I am now pursuing my dream as a writer. As a little girl in Brooklyn, and then Long Beach, NY, I wrote my own stories, but I ripped them up, never thinking they weren't any good. In my teenage years, my stories were about my teen idols, such as The Beatles and Herman's Hermits. After graduating with a BA in French and Spanish from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, now Stony Brook Universityin 1976, I indulged my wanderlust, and did some traveling. Ever the anglophile, I went to London and worked as a governess for an American diplomat family. We lived at 1, Abbey Road, next to Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles recorded, and the famous crosswalk pictured on the cover of the LP of the same name. Sir Paul McCartney lived around the corner too, and I was lucky enough to meet him and his late wife Linda. They even posed for a photo, one of my most prized possessions.

In 1977, I started what was to be a 20-year airline/hotel/tourism career. I became a reservationist at Aeroméxico Airlines. After working in reservations, I transferred to JFK Airport as a Passenger Service Agent. In December 1979, needing a change, I transferred to Los Angeles, California, where I lived until 1983, when I returned to NY.

Sunny California out of my system, I became repatriated as a New Yorker. In 1984, I bought a co-op apartment in Rego Park, Queens, where I remain to this day. In 1988, Aeromexico declared a bogus bankruptcy, busted the union, and fired us all. Later that year, I went to work for Garuda Indonesia Airlines as a Sales Assistant until 1990, when I joined Sabena Airlines

Later in 1990, I became Northeast USA Sales Manager for Cayman Airways and enjoyed many trips to the tropical Cayman Islands. From 1992-1994, I had a very unmemorable stint as a sales manager at a Chilean airline called Ladeco

Frustrated by airlines that cancelled routes or went out of business, causing me to be displaced, I decided to go to the hotel sector. I then joined Doubletree Hotelsas a sales manager. This was three and a half years of a bad fit.

Deciding it was time to return to the profession my parents had always envisioned for me, I joined the NYC Board of Education, now called the Department of Education, and from 1997 until ALS permanently disabled me, I taught French and Spanish in the high school division at The Academy of Environmental Science, I loved teaching, and was treated very badly when I became disabled. But I miss teaching, and being around my students. They always made me feel young