European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine drawings by Laurel Lee for her walking got to a place where it didst matter if i lived or by Lacey Fosburgh new Vork times Aurel Lee has been through what her Bible Calls the fire and she has faced abandonment and divorce in less than a she went to the fourth and final stage of a Hodgkins but then she didst die As she was supposed All along the Way everyone expected her to but she never what she did was respond with cheer and a homely philosophy of love and Faith m site kept and now she has ended up almost famous and ensconced in a whole new identity and career As an author and modern Day Teller of tales and truths and Laurel Lee was among the find of her goers too in smoke dope and drop to View hitchhiking and poverty Ai a Way of lie in Hose Over a decade to find in the intervening years id has homesteaded in Given up the drugs and the taken a husband and Tome three but her attitudes toward life Are much the now Laurel who used to pay a month rent to live in somebody and was so unusual in the Early Days of hippies that her a decorated appeared in a has been the very moneymaking society she sought for years to avoid has found its All because of the Lovely Little Book with drawings by Laurel Lee called wetting to rough the Fin a hot i la it tells in a poetic Way that fran Cis of assist might have in the sixth month of her cancer was she refused an abortion and postponed after the birth of a total of seven a number of extensive chemotherapy and Radi and facing imminent her husband suddenly Eft her Lor Ute to is not if it and Laurel Lee wrote it a year ago Tor one Bat four doctor Friend to last fail the Dutton publishing company bought it for and rushed ii into Prim so it would appear before she to everyone several months later the disease passed into a rare stage of this Means it could recur in so years or in one the Book went on to become on alternate Selec Tion of the literary Guild Bantam paperbacks bought it fur Over As much As Bantam has Ever spent on a Book and now Laurel Lee goes to Book conventions and appears on the Book will be published in Japan and Ger she gels letters from people she has never Mot and is the subject of an upcoming television document she has established Trust funds for her children and bought her first she hired a housekeeper for the first time allowed the heal to stay on at Laurel Lee is tall and with fragile arms and Light Blue she wears embroidered Denim and garments from the Thrift stores where she used to look or the children Arent allowed to watch Televik and they go to special Christian their father rarely sees i never dreamed of publication and i never thought about Sorn Tunn i wonder what it is doing to me As a t really Vitae being the 1 dont know where All this will go when i was i didst eel Bat when 1 bad children and settled i food a rut Iff too Early to Tell the whole effect it win have on the company1 coming in the the Are still no Isdr Way Laurel Lee was born in but spent most of her life in near san Francisco and 3ie went to when she and her Richard decided to Settle Down with their baby mat now her own family was her lather worked As a budget analyst with the Lockheed aircraft corporation and Laurel Lee was among the first of her generation to rebel against the old she went la Berkeley but dropped out even before opposition to the Vietnam War had really and with her husband she went to Alaska to we were looking for another kind of conscious she said they found it in the strength and As she Calls her Dedica Tion to influenced her attitude toward this Altitude imaged her she just As it has since intrigued her to Laurel it All hems like it is because of Jesus and her Laurel Lee has no she knows nothing of ambivalence i never want to believe in something that isl she if i have to be in firing squad circumstances to find out if my beliefs Are in had survived Laurel Lees test and though her Book is a sparse about tier beliefs As it is about details of her Laurel Lee herself is very open and loquacious about her prolonged experience with ill Ness and were magical things i discovered in if my body is just a car i drive around inside As it begins to fall apart As outward Man begins to perish the inward Man is renewed Day to Day if you really believe in the where it All things work together for for those that have god Phenno Nutter Bow thing May appear to you can rely on the fact that somehow it b working or your what 1 fell about i had so much i had a peace that Wai beyond anything 1 could under even though so Many difficult things were happen la Natl Lee b pleased that the by Bat not i got to a place where 11 didst matter if 1 lived or except for the Taw glimpses of heaven and they were pretty i  have minded going on at it precisely these her Faith and How she has applied it to what she Calls thai have intrigued m Many people from her to her Edi to the Public at Shes dearly very and All this is As apparent in her two Story old wooden House in As it is in tier Little August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 13