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| March 15, 2004 | Thurman, Judith | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

My father had a secretary named Barbara who kept his books and managed his life for twenty years. I don't think he knew much about her, except that she lived in Brooklyn with a diabetic sister and had a son in the Army. The son was a decorated soldier whom I never met, though he figured in the violent arguments that I had with my father, in the late sixties, about his conviction that Kissinger's "domino theory" was a necessary evil, and mine that anyone who subscribed to it was a war criminal. Barbara had always processed her hair, which she wore in a pageboy, a la Coretta Scott King--a rigid helmet as highly polished as a walnut breakfront. Then one Monday, without ...

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