From This Day Forward: Memoirs of an Attache Wife

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Summary: Estupendo!
Review: From This Day Forward should be required reading for anyone contemplating a career in foreign service, and read twice by anyone contemplating marriage to someone so inclined. Helen Rodman's memoirs capture the diplomatic life perfectly -- the adventure of new places delivered by frequent packing and the necessary letting go of things dear. Beneath it all is a love story -- a tale of enduring passion and shared dreams, of monumental loss, and the triumph of lives well lived. Bravo, Mrs. Rodman!

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Summary: A most enjoyable experience
Review: I have finished reading From This Day Forward, (Memoirs Of An Attache Wife), and want to say that I loved it. What an interesting, rich, varied life Helen Rodman and her family have led, and with what gusto and equanimity she tells the story! I dropped everything in order to get on with reading this book and brooked no interruption till I got to the end.

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Summary: Estupendo!
Review: In the great tradition of life stories, Ms. Rodman mixes the minute with the grand scheme of things, and paints for us a large detailed canvas of color and pathos. It is a great way of learning about far off places, through the eyes of one who lived it, rather than race by in a glass dome capturing only the superficial. Helen has made friends far and wide, and must be well loved by all. Methinks that whosoever knows her has a better chance of linking up with all inhabitants of the planet in less than the proverbial six degrees of separation... for she has known people in the most remote areas of the world, as well as presidents, prime ministers and even dictators!

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Summary: Read it and love it!
Review: In the great tradition of life stories, Ms. Rodman mixes the minute with the grand scheme of things, and paints for us a large detailed canvas of color and pathos. It is a great way of learning about far off places, through the eyes of one who lived it, rather than race by in a glass dome capturing only the superficial. Helen has made friends far and wide, and must be well loved by all. Methinks that whosoever knows her has a better chance of linking up with all inhabitants of the planet in less than the proverbial six degrees of separation... for she has known people in the most remote areas of the world, as well as presidents, prime ministers and even dictators!