or Needleman, the past eight months since the closing of domino could be called the winter of her professional life, a sudden freedom from years of successful, ambitious career devotion, a break in what Needleman does not necessarily define as a career “path”, but more the following of her many personal interests. Although she genuinely loved domino, felt inspired by its mission and greatly humbled and appreciative of its success, she began to long for the things that satisfied her most deeply, and felt herself drifting from the “urbanite” she had, for years, thought she was. For a woman who is made happiest by a meadow, who would rather spend money on plants than clothes, she knew this sudden
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