Henry F
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Otho Eskin:
Hi Otho! I've read that your first career was in the foreign service. What drew you to this? Very different from writing.
Otho Eskin
Thanks, Henry. Great question! I’d probably have to ask a psychoanalyst that question. I did feel a pull both toward the law and diplomacy. I spent my senior year of high school in Paris. I was learning French, and that excited me. I found a fascinating world away from the mundane one I grew up in. It seemed exotic to live abroad. Foreign policy was a secondary thing. The pull, for me, was to experience life abroad. The foreign service allowed me to do that.
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Margie Fenton
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Otho Eskin:
I really enjoyed the book. Along the way I sometimes wondered when it was written. Who still drives a Datsun? (I did in the 1970's.) Who still makes coffee on the stove? Some hair styles and fashions sounded a bit dated. I thought perhaps this book was written years ago and had finally been polished up and published. Am I wrong?
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