Middlebury values a sense of place and community in all forms. Please tell us about where you have grown up. How has it contributed to the way you hope to influence the world?

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...Although the earliest period of my life in the countryside with my grandma and her mountain seems to be waning its vividness slowly, memories that had molded my character and personality will never completely lose their brightness and will visit me from time to time. It was a world of sluggish placidity, of which a little girl became a part so naturally...