Laurie Pickard


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Laurie Pickard is a full-time student and T.A. in Geography. She lives in Philadelphia, where she's worked waitressing, driving an ambulance (for a day), translating and editing books in Spanish, line cooking, teaching music lessons, teaching yoga, playing guitar and singing, and teaching middle school science.


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