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Her parents encouraged Kim to have an interest in art. “I was dragged to museums all over New York City beginning when I was about five,” she recalled, chuckling at the memory of those early bouts with culture.

The artistic bug failed to bite, however, and Kim graduated from high school with no plans for what she would do with her life.

“I had no idea—absolutely no idea—of what 1 wanted to be. Most kids know something. At least they know the general field they’re interested in—math, science, liberal arts. I didn’t.”

She agreed to go to college only after striking a bargain with her mother that she try it for just one year. The school she chose was Beloit College in Wisconsin, an unconventional institution for its day, one of the first to offer a trimester program with a requirement that students spend at least one term in off-campus workstudy.

Initially, Kim planned to try an anthropology major but by the time she arrived at school, Beloit’s three experts in the field had either retired, quit or been fired.

With that option out the window, Kim dabbled here and there, concentrating

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