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The local New Orleans newspaper, the Times-Picayune (doh’t ask), ran a beautiful farewell today to a very special person in my life. She made it her job to make me fall in love with her birthplace, the Crescent City, taking me everyplace, high and low. And it worked.

But beyond that, she was a remarkable human gumbo of talents and achievements—a PhD, the head of the local Film Commission, the best-read person I knew and a compulsive late-night viewer of “Perry Mason” reruns. She was a delight. Her name was Stephanie Samuel, though the surname changed through the years. Here’s the T-P obit:

https://obituaries.nola.com/obituary/stephanie-durant-1093563635