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Ms. Sylvia Bows is a thirty-something lady of great distinction. Born
in Paris, Sylvia was torn away from her loving cousin to move into the city
of Love and Flower-power--San Francisco. She was only twelve but she felt
like a grown woman with at least nineteen years of hard living behind her.
Sylvia was young, blond, and in California. But it did not take her long
to realize that she still needed the gentle guidance of her older, and much
more mature, cousin Rene. And that she needed to put at least one continent
between her and her parents. Only four years after she put her foot on the
gentle rolling mountains of San Francisco, Sylvia announced her intentions
of becoming a journalist and moved to fight injustice in New York City,
having been accepted to NYU. Her parents openly grieved and secretly were
relieved from the burden of knowing too much about their daughter. As all
parents, they felt that what they don't know can't hurt them, at least for
a while. So packing her belongings into a multicolored Volkswagen bus, Sylvia
took off across country to join her loving Rene, who had moved to the US
with a journalist's visa and a boyfriend. While only a freshman, Sylvia
had her first article published in the New York Times. The article was entitled
"Women of Conscience", was written from a jail cell, and described
the dark side of being arrested in a great cause. Ever since that day, Sylvia
has been a shining example to young women everywhere.
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