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My father’s career fashioned our lives. He was sometimes not home for months, working in places as diverse as the deserts of New Mexico or the Mount Washington Observatory, in New Hampshire.

We moved at least every five years, so our surroundings were temporary; you either loved it or hated it. I was 10 when we moved from the idyllic coast of southern

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