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Maryanne Raphael
Maryanne Raphael
Carlsbad, Ca
Member since: May, 2008
Last login: 11/11/2009
Last update : 11/11/2009
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  • When I was five years old I created a story that my grandfather typed and mailed to St Anthony Messenger.  The magazine promptly gave me my first rejection slip.  I continued writing all my life.  Was editor of the literary magazine at Ohio University.  Won a prize from the French government for Une Annee a Paris.  Anais Nin wrote the Preface for Runaways, America's Lost Youth which was published in NYC and japan.  The Authors Guild republublished it in their Backinprint series.  Recently St.

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  • Revolutions

    November 11, 2009

    • The Revolution is being televised, blogged, emailed and tweeted. The world-wide Revolution in Communication and Information is speeding us towards more and more Revolutions. As we travel the air and surf the internet we are exposed to new thoughts, new methods and new people.In the sixties people shouted, "The Revolution will be televised!" Many people felt that part of the ...
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  • My Favorite city, Rio de Janeiro

    October 22, 2009

    • My Favorite city, Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro is my favorite city. My husband and I visited it on our honeymoon and ended up spending two of the happiest and saddest times of our lives. When we arrived, the sun was shinning, the palm trees were waltzing, the sky was a deep blue and the ocean a miraculous aquamarine. In those days, Rio was still the capital of Brazil and all the diplomats ...
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  • Dreams from my Father, A story of Race and Inheritance By Barack Obama, Three Rivers Press

    September 28, 2008

    • In Dreams From My Father, Obama wrote of his efforts to understand his family, the leaps through time and the collision of cultures hoping to shine light on the question of identity and race in the American experience. He described the “underlying struggle between worlds of plenty and worlds of want, between modern and ancient cultures.” He admired those “who embrace our teeming, colliding ...
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  • When I met Anais Nin

    September 21, 2008

    • When I took a course on the psychology of women at Los Angeles City College, I wrote about the Anais Nin I knew.  My professor, Dr. Eve Jones, told me, "If you know Anais you must know Ken Merrill.”  When I said I had not met Ken who was a student in another of her classes she introduced the two of us.  We both loved Anais.  I had known her in New York and Ken knew her in California. ...
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