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About the Archivist: Leon Davis

I suppose I was destined to be a writer when I was born in 1953 in Portland to a wannabe newspaper mogul
and a stay-at-home mother with big dreams for her only son. The nightly news fueled my passion for stories,
information. I grew up knowing Frances and Beth as my older sister's companions, and not until high school did I
begin to see something in the vocalist (she wasn't so interested, but I don't blame her). Hardly a year after they
graduate, they're knocking at my door, asking for my father. Wanting him to help them make music or something...
I didn't hear much about those girls for quite a few years. It wasn't until the last year of my journalism degree
from the University of Oregon did I hear the news -- those girls went all the way to France. And they went BIG.
We soon reconnected, and I finally met lovely Corinne. My two measly years of high school French wasn't cutting it
against the trio's quick tongues, so I diligently worked to learn the language. Before I knew it, I was on a plane
to Montpellier with a tenuous connection for a position at Le Monde diplomatique. I edited and translated
for that publication for 9 years, and I owe it all to le vallée. All the while, Frances and I grew ever closer,
and I married her on June 12, 1980.