Article May 12, 1980 ISSUE

A traveler's letter home

KAREN ARNOLD

Dear Mom and Dad,

Because we're separated by oceans and half a world, it must be difficult for you to feel assured of my safety. Probably in your mind's eye you see me as a lone girl getting in and out of trouble around the world. Yet if I saw myself as merely an adventurous mortal determined to prove her independence, I would have had to give up my venture long ago.

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