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Perfect Symbiosis

esigner, biker and sailor Carol Karthe has been living an active life for as long as she can remember. “I started riding about 30 years ago. My long [standing] passions are sailing, motorbiking and playing polo,” Karthe says in an interview a few days before she flew to Argentina for a polo camp. The multi-hyphenate is one of the founders of The Litas Manila, a group of moto-obsessed women in the Philippines that is part of a global all-female motorcycle charter. She rides a horse twice a week and loves biking around, near or far. She randomly hops on a boat to sail whenever she feels like it. “I go to the beach … spur of the moment … no plans. I sleep on the boat or travel to other islands for two weeks. [I have] no

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