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Forrest, Margot Silk

Grew up in Philadelphia and attended Sarah Lawrence College and Williams College. Six years later she went into the newspaper business. She worked as an editor on the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Dallas Times-Herald, and the San Jose Mercury News. In 1984, she left the world of journalism for high-tech. She worked in Silicon Valley at Hewlett-Packard and in 1991 founded The Healing Woman, a monthly journal for women in recovery from childhood sexual abuse.