"I had fallen in love with someone whom I met in Israel. There were young people who came from all over the world from the diaspora."Īfter Israel, Anne went to California. Israel was, and is, an extremely dynamic country, and so it fascinated me as did kibbutz living. I did 'ulpan' which is a kibbutz Hebrew study. My body was moving before my brain had engaged, and so I went back to Israel and stayed for a year and a half through the Yom Kippur War in 1973. I probably did have a love of history, but I didn't know it. I had a lot of Jewish friends, and, for me, Israel was the spiritual centre of the world, and so I wanted to see it. I had gone to a kibbutz in Israel for three months during the summer I was 17. I was really awful and dropped out in second year and went off to Israel. I didn't do very well in my sciences program at university.
"In grade 12, I had dropped everything I was good at, like history and languages (I was taking German, Latin and French) and took all the sciences, something I never should have done.
I thought, 'OK, I'm going to be a doctor.'"įollowing high school, Anne entered the University of Toronto with medicine as her goal. I saw Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness in which she was a missionary doctor in China. As a teenager, I wanted to be a paediatrician. We didn't do public speaking in school, and kids didn't get up and give presentations.
In school, I never ever went and tried out for a play. I remember telling my minister about that career choice when I was about five years old, but I was far too shy to ever be an actor. He's my rascally little red-headed brother Jim who is the little brother in Under a Prairie Sky. I really grew up as the youngest of the family, and then 10 years later my mom had a 'surprise' boy. "I have an older sister and an older brother. When Anne was born in Don Mills, ON, on September 22, 1953, she was then the youngest of three children.
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