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Foreword certainly.” And saying this, she pounced on the manuscript,
pounced, using her whole body, arms and shoulders, not just
her hands, to scribble in the words that made it just the
slightest bit better.
Only then did she look up and acknowledge me.
I didn’t realize it right away, but that eager, egoless, un-
guarded “Oh, yes, certainly” stuck with me: Thank you, Elise.
From a distance of twenty-five years, I write now of a tricky
little professional situation. But for her, I am certain, it didn’t
exist. For her there was no editor or writer, no senior or ju-
nior, no man or woman, no vanity, no pettiness, no person-
alities. There were only the words, and the ideas they ex-
pressed, that were our job, together, to get right. Nothing
else mattered. And everything that mattered was on that page.

I write of a time during the late 1970s and 1980s when I
and a few other young writers—freelancers, interns, office
assistants, kids just starting out—worked with Elise at the
magazine. Most of what I know today about writing, espe-
cially writing about science, medicine, and other difficult
subjects, I learned then. Others did, too. Those who came to
see the ceaseless flow of



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