When I met Carol Selle, I was in graduate school at the University of Chicago. Carol was Mrs. Selle to me at that time, the close friend of another remarkable woman I had the privilege to know, Elizabeth—Betsey—Bobrinskoy. Her son Charlie and his wife Mary Anne and two of their sons are here. After seminary, ordination, and work in Dallas and Baton Rouge, in 1988 I became rector of a parish in Michigan City, Indiana—on Lake Michigan, on the border of the State of Michigan—not far from Carol and Richard Selle’s house in the amazing lakeshore dunes on the southern and western shores of Lake Michigan.
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