Happenstance and Choices: In France 1938 to 1969

This work is based on my belief that it is useful if not necessary to know under what influences we grew up. I cannot imagine my life without the troubles and the tragedies. Not to say that I would not wish to have been spared some of the lessons life taught me but these made me who I am now and being alive has altogether been the most exciting thing yet. I often feel that I am lucky: Jai de la chance. I have taken chances as well wandering so far that I now live almost on the other side of the world from the village of my birth. Yet I dont feel a stranger in a strange land--just richer filled to the brim and still true to the girl child I was.