e of the elephants. The creature and the youngster looked into each otherÆs eyes, filling Graham with an inspired feeling of mysterious and intimate contact with something alive but not human. The experience was quickly interrupted by her panicked father but it awakened GrahamÆs lifelong fascination with animals. She would continue to draw inspiration from their special sense of presence and would often spend hours studying the grace with which they moved.
When Graham was 14, her family moved to Santa Barbara, California to escape the cold winters and the perpetual cloud of soot that aggravated her sisterÆs athsma. Santa Barbara opened up a world of sunlight, flowers, sea breezes and the exotic Asian and Latino culture of their neighbors. For Graham it
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