Patricia Hill says she is unused to looking backward. "But I see threads running through my life," she said. "I see my love of different sports and of flowers and gardens.
Patricia Hill
"My mother had a beautiful garden, which passersby stopped to admire. Ever since I discovered the description of a dilettante in a Thomas Mann novel, I could see myself there, dipping into anything and everything as it happened."
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