Carrie says: I am consistently amazed by my friend Anita’s passion for life, she inhales every moment, she eats every morsel of food with her fingers. She is gentle and strong, a wonderful mother and a devoted wife to our dear Howie. Oh, how the world would be if her joy could be drunk.

Danielle says: My friend Yasmina is the “Director of Knowledge” (could there be a cooler title?) at a socially progressive investment fund in New York. Her dedication makes me recall a line from an Indigo Girls song, “There are a hundred things you would die for, I can hardly think of two” (okay, that’s a bit dramatic, but it makes my point.). Her vocation has everything to do with improving living conditions for people in systemic ways. And in her spare time, she and her man founded 100 Friends “…a community of friends to change the world.” She says “I love you” when waving goodbye. Once she recited a Rilke poem in my ear while we sat by a fountain. She speaks Spanish like it’s her first language. She writes a mean grant proposal. I bow to her.

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