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Dottie Lamm's vibrant, engaged, and passionate personality shines through in this third collection drawn from her popular newspaper columns, covering a span of 25 years. For this volume, she has specifically chosen those essays that elicited emotional, often deeply personal responses from her audience. The result is a thought-provoking compilation of pieces that will pull at heartstrings and elicit Aha! moments for readers old and new.Lamm was the first lady of Colorado for more than a decade (from 1975 to 1987), and she ran as Colorado's Democratic candidate for the US Senate in 1998. In these pages, she shares insights stemming from the myriad roles she has fulfilled over her lifetime, not only as a political spouse and a politician in her own right but also and especially as a daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, feminist, and friend. Throughout this book, she tackles tough issues and tender realities-from marriage and children to aging and ethics-with candor and compassion, frequently offering her observations with an endearing, self-effacing humor. As former Governor Dick Lamm, her husband of 57 years, says, This book will give you an insight into the real Dottie Lamm, the person I have always loved but have now come to know in a deeper way.

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Dottie Lamm, Colorado's first lady from 1975 to 1987 and newspaper columnist from 1979 to 2017, has worked as a flight attendant, a psychiatric social worker, a college instructor, a public speaker, and a political activist. In 1998, as a self-proclaimed feminist and environmentalist, she won the Colorado Democratic Party nomination for the United States Senate. Now retired, she lives in Denver with her husband of 57 years, former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm. She enjoys time with her four grandchildren-ages 15 to 8-(whenever she can catch them!), volunteers for various projects that serve refugees, mentors young people with political ambitions, and jumps in to champion candidates (especially Democratic pro-choice women) every election cycle. This year (2020), she celebrates 39 years as a breast cancer survivor. An avid outdoorswoman, in her spare time Dottie hikes, swims, and cross-country skis. In her youth, she climbed 34 of Colorado's 54 mountains over 14,000 feet. This is Lamm's third published collection of columns. It is distinguished from the others, Second Banana (1983) and Choice Concerns (1996), by its emphasis on the heart over the head, the personal over the political, and the psychological over the polemical.

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