Surviving Ellen: Second Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781974285525)

I was born in Brooklyn in 1937 and lived in New York for the next thirty-two years. I met Stuart Eichelbaum when we were art students at Pratt Institute. Stu was born in Brooklyn, but his family moved to Detroit when he was three. He was twenty-three when I met him. A veteran of the Korean War, he was going to college on the GI Bill. I had graduated from James Madison High that year and was eighteen. We became engaged on our third date and married eight months later. After graduating from Pratt I got my first job right away and two weeks later found out it wasn't nearly as difficult to get pregnant as I had been led to believe. And in 1960 there was no such thing as Day Care, so I did freelance artwork at home for the next thirteen years. Stu, after ten years on Madison Avenue was then commuting for three hours a day from our house in Huntington Station. We decided to get out of New York and moved to Knoxville, TN, after Stu got a great job there. We changed our last name to Eichel, and lived in Tennessee for thirty years before moving to Saratoga Springs, NY.