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| | Slate Magazine |
 | | In her outdoor working life, she apprenticed with Washington, D.C., garden designer Patrick Thevenard, earned a Brooklyn Botanic Garden horticulture certificate, and worked for five years as a gardener for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. |
 | | He is the author of On Her Trail, a biography of his late mother, the television newscaster Nancy Dickerson. |
 | | Previously, he was an assistant managing editor at U.S. News and World Report, a reporter in the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal, and an editor of the Washington Monthly. |
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