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That's when her husband decided they should pay a visit to the in-laws back in Jeddah, a place where family visits are never short. When she was in the sixth grade, they moved to the Presidio, and it was here she lived until she married at 19 and had her daughter, Yasmina.
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Ferraris, born in Oklahoma, grew up trailing her father, an Army sergeant, around the country. It is a rental house, but the reformed nomad takes it one lease at a time. She feels she is home and has a home, after years here and months there. But I realize I lost a lot of things."Īnd so it is with some reverence that Ferraris sits for coffee at her "Rogues table," or types her sequel at her broad Pier 1 desk, or walks Stella the border collie at Crissy Field. The nomad in me appreciated it at the time. "There's a lot of hospitality and a lot of generosity in their world. My husband would give things away - at one point my car, at another my washing machine. "During my marriage, twice we got rid of almost everything. "I remember my father-in-law nailing a sofa set to the wall so that no one would give it away," she said.
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