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This is a woman’s frank, uninhibited personal story playedout against the backdrop of the major world events of the20th Century.
Sylvia Cole was born on the Lower East Side to Jewish immigrantsfrom Austria-Poland. By the age of six, she was living with hermaternal grandparents, her parents having come down withtuberculosis as a result of the Spanish flu of 1918. The entirenuclear family was dispersed: her parents in a sanitarium in Denver;one brother in the foster care system; and the youngest taken byan aunt and uncle on the day he was born.
At nine Sylvia was sent to an orphanage from which she was rescuedby a benefactor a year later. She lived for four years with an auntfrom whose home she ran away. She wandered homeless in NewYork City until she was taken in by a teacher at Hunter CollegeHigh School, from which she graduated first in her class. She thenlived as an au pair girl in various homes while she attended HunterCollege, making Phi Beta Kappa.
This is the story of her adventures, including running away tothe Sangre de Cristo Mountains with another girl, the story ofher loves and marriages, first to a Broadway actor and then to awell-known educator, of her intellectual passions. She retired froma career as an outstanding teacher of English in the New YorkCity high schools and discovered that there is life after retirement.She became an editor and writer and appeared monthly with herhusband, Abe Lass, on 'New York and Company' at WNYC fortwo and a half years.
She has two married sons, four grandchildren, and a boyfriend.
