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<p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;">I arrived at Wellesley carrying my father’s political beliefs and my mother’s dreams and left with the beginnings of my own.<br /><br />I didn’t hit my stride as a Wellesley student right away. My struggles with math and geology convinced me once and for all to give up on any idea of be coming a doctor or a scientist. My French professor gently told me, “Mademoiselle, your talents lie elsewhere.”<br /><br />One snowy night during my freshman year, Margaret Clapp, then...