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Robin Marsden’s Legacy to Quadrant

“Big Sister” Robin Marsden (1936–2021), who sadly succumbed to faculties-withering Parkinson’s disease in August after a long struggle, was a poetic spirit. She fastened onto an image from the American poet Robert Frost, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.” In 2003, looking back on her earlier creative life, Robin mused, “I think I found the road ‘less travelled by’ or it found me.” It was serendipity that her road and the road that Quadrant was on intersected at a moment of mutual benefit and…

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