“I didn’t have a job or anything, but I knew I wanted to be in magazines. I went out every day and hand delivered my resume, and a year later I got a job with Architectural Digest magazine. I apprenticed with the editor-in-chief. She was 76 when I first started working for her. She started that magazine. She’s amazing. She taught me everything. After that, I became assistant editor and then I started doing a section for them called ‘Mary’s Finds.’”
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