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Violet Snow

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Violet Snow grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York. After majoring in Russian at Darmouth College, she taught English in Tehran and spent a year and a half in India and Sri Lanka, trying to be a yogi or a Buddhist. Finally she gave away her possessions, shaved her head, and started begging. Her six weeks as a sadhu--a spiritual wanderer--are the subject of her memoir "Afternoon of a Sadhu."

Since then, she has been a computer programmer, a copywriter, an herbalist, an urban communard, an aikido practitioner (3rd degree black belt), and a freelance journalist.

Her favorite writing topics are ancestors and historical fiction.
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Violet at the Middle Atlantic regional women’s club convention in Wilmington, Delaware. Photo by Henri Belcher-Stack

Dear Great-grandma Mary,

I am so pleased with the new direction our collaboration is taking. This phase began with the talented Jami D, who sings in a Fleetwood Mac cover band and is conscious of the power of costume. She suggested I get a 1910s outfit to wear when I give presentation

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