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After being at Arnold for a few months, I was invited to be part of the pitch team for Volvo.  To say it was lengthy process would be an understatement. There were months of late nights, weekends, and holidays. Leaving at 2 AM became the norm. I gained 15 lbs from meal after meal of food court cuisine. (Arnold is conveniently located inside the Prudential Center mall.) And just when we thought the pitch was over, there was another 3-week creative shootout against Fallon (and more intimate conversations with Boston’s wee-hour cab drivers for me).

TRANSITION…

I had met with Deborah Dragon at Rolling Stone over a year and four months beforehand.  And I’d only had a few, sporadic correspondences since that meeting.   An email promo about 8 months before I got the call was possibly the last thing I’d sent her.  Regardless, she had a couple shoots in LA  for this issue that involved portraits and cars and she thought of me—I’m thinking it was the cars that helped her to think of me.