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Overview

  • 2 references
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Ph.D. student in History at Yale
  • College of William & Mary; Yale University
  • From Fairport, NY
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

Interests

History, cities, coffee, singing, reading, writing.

  • writing
  • singing
  • coffee
  • reading
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

Some favorites:

John Irving, "A Prayer for Owen Meany"
Kazuo Ishiguro, "The Remains of the Day"
Vladimir Nabokov, "Ada, or Ardor"
W. H. Auden

Bach; Dvořak
Iron & Wine
Simon & Garfunkel

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watched the sun rise over the Sahara.

Teach, Learn, Share

"Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar."

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Nicaragua, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Slovakia, United States

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