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     When I was 21 years old, I had a college   book launched my career into films and
     assignment at California Polytechnic   photo shoots for the senior living indus-
     State University to photograph a portrait  try. I began my journey photographing
     of Army Ranger WWII veteran, Ran-  WWII veterans in my free time. Belmont
     dall Harris, who had sustained a major   Village Senior Living discovered my
     wound during the war. Randall was also   project shortly after I graduated college
     21 years old when he was fighting in   and they sent me around the country
     the war. That helped put my life into   to photograph veterans living in Bel-
     perspective and made me realize I had it  mont Village communities. The project
     pretty easy as a college student. Randall   resulted in a coffee table book published
     went skydiving at the age of 91 years old  with Random House called The Last Good
     (which is not something I even wanted to  War: The Faces And Voices Of  WWII
     do as a 21 year old and still do not want   in 2010. In 2015 I launched a company
     to do at the age of 36) and he changed   called Senior Living Photography. I have
     my view on aging! It blew my mind that   been commissioned to photograph/film
     he jumped out of a plane at 91 years old!  dozens of subjects on aging: couples that

     I got the idea to travel the country and   have been married for over 50 years, a
     photograph and interview WWII veter-  centenarian calendar (the oldest person I
     ans for a coffee table book concept. The   photographed was 112 and she wrote 11
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