Laurie Graham
Laurie Graham
Laurie Graham, CMis a Canadian downhill skier who represented Canada at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics. She won six World Cup victories and three National Downhill titles in her eleven years on the National Ski Team. She was the first North American woman to win a World Cup Super Giant Slalom skiing. She was the first North American to win on home soil at Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. In addition, Graham posted 34 top 10 FIS World Cup Downhill results...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 November 1947
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Not so very long ago, certainly well into the Thirties, a lady companion was a normal feature of life for widows or lone spinsters.
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I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.
In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.
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I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.
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I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.
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Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.
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Sundown is often the worst time of day for people with dementia. They can become restless and difficult.
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Theoretically, with this antifreeze protein we might be able to store an organ at 21 degrees Fahrenheit. Hopefully, it would be able to last longer so that you would have longer to do tissue matching to get the organ to the patient and just increase the shelf life of organs.
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There is something very easy about women's friendships that you don't see as often with men. We all know examples of this, when women will just call each other up or drop a line, not with anything specific to say.
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Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can knock off at the end of their shift to go home, take an uninterrupted shower, and have a normal conversation with someone.
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I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.
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The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.
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There would have been climate change and the organisms were challenged by a new environment,
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It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.