No Regrets

I had been living in Rome attending Trinity College of Hartford's art history and architecture program when my good friend, Karin Norton, from the UCONN Hartford branch called to invite me to share a dorm room at the IDC for the 1978 winter semester. Immediately after arriving, Gary Allen Freed's (aka GAF) Maxfield Parrish reproduction captured me and we started seeing each other, although he had already graduated and was living off campus in Storrs. That turned out to be my last semester at UCONN and living on the East Coast after GAF, James Tierney, Wazoo (Matt Kahn) and Mary Krach and I drove across the country (two separate trips for me) -- everyone else went to California and GAF and I moved to Eugene, where I finished my degree at the University of Oregon, later settling in the Bay Area after GAF and I separated, although he eventually moved here too and also stayed. This past September 2018 was the 40th anniversary of my move to the West Coast! I didn't know anything about IDC until I joined the dorm, which decided to experiment with governing by anarchy that semester, which worked surprisingly well as most volunteered and pitched in to make our shared experience the best it could be. It was one of the freest times of my life, marred only by my roommate dragging me to the EST training -- guess there had to be some counterbalance there. I don't think I would have ever made it to the West without the IDC and the people I met there. No regrets whatsoever.

Maria Dulfu