by Romayne Kazmer
Letters That Moved My Father (2020)
A Memoir
https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2020/10/21/letters-moved-my-father
Author Romayne Kazmer attributes her love of travel and curiosity of the world to her year abroad in 1959/60 studying at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and summer school at the University of Oslo in Norway. She traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East at that time. The Appendix contains a speech she gave about her life in 2005, 45 years after she completed her first journey.
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A photo of my family taken a few years before I went to school in Switzerland. Pictured from left to right are Bud, Dick, Bob, me, Frank, and Susie. Bob is sometimes omitted in my regards because he was in school at the University of Eastern New Mexico at that time. My sister, Susie, was nine years old and remembers our father reading my letters to her when they would arrive!
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