Thank you Judith W for this article: Zenobia: Empress of the East: "I Am Not My Body. I Am My Mind" (Updated) ... for reminding me of when I met Prof Rita Levi-Montalcini at a lecture in 1975(?).
I was in graduate school exploring the fine structure of inter-cellular "social networking" what I dubbed "neuroecology" a decade later at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem , Israel (to the amusement of many colleagues and long before it became a field of study in its own right.
Would I say, looking back, that I had erred by not accepting her invitation to visit her lab at Washington University in St Louis?
No regrets. I was young and foolish, very much in love, newly married, not to be long apart, and St Louis seemed like the other side of the world . . . .
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