<div dir="ltr"><div>I wrote a travel article on Curacao, and I quoted my college friend who lived there, who I'd gone to visit.</div><div><br></div><div>I just looked up the piece - published March 13, 1988, Boston Sunday Globe. Only an image of the page is available online, because that was pre-WWW.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:26 AM Esther Schindler via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Just idle contemplation here, based on a recent online conversion with my high school sweetheart… who became a successful VC in biotech, and is now retired. I was thinking how odd it was that I never had a reason to ask him for input on a story.<br>
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On the other hand, I once got to interview my first cousin, a VP at Warner Brothers (off the record) about the future of movie distribution and the technology needed to accomplish it. And not long ago I quoted a high school friend — who’d become an IT recruiter — for a career-related story.<br>
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There’s a particular pleasure in those experiences, at least for me. It’s like discovering another facet to your relationship, and learning something new about a person whom you’ve known your whole life. Something positive, that is, since they are authoritative enough on the subject to obviously have useful information to add.<br>
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So whom have you gotten to quote?<br>
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