Anais Nin

Throw you 

dreams into space 

like a kite,

and you do not

know what it 

will bring back,

a new life,

a new friend,

a new love,

a new country.

           - Anais Nin

I am thinking of using this quote from the poet/author Anais Nin for my daughter's 18th birthday card. She has been accepted into, and desperately wants to attend, The Paris Collage of Art.  It's appropriate as she wants to be a fashion designer, but IS IT WHAT I WANT?!  For her to study fashion design in Paris, is the BOMB but, honestly, can I let her go?  Of course, I have to.  I don't want to.  But at the end of the day, when a future employer asks where she studied fashion - does Chicago sound stronger than Paris?

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