Helen Mandlin
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Dancing in the Dark
From Greenwich Village &Upper West Side about jealousy, marriage, performance, Relationships, romance, singer, singing, theater, whirlwind romancePublished on: 10/13/2014
A native New Yorker, graduate of the HIgh School of Performing Arts.
A singer/dancer/actress I wound up teaching kindergarten in Chelsea and Greenwich Village. Eventually I became a psychoanalyst. I retired in 2013 after 25 years in private practice. Along the way I continued singing, wriiting my own cabaret act. I have one son who lives in DC. I've been an upper west sider since 1974. I am currently writing a memoir, entitled
Death, Divorce & Real Estate: An Upper West Side Story.
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It was around 1975 and I was maybe 8 years old. My $2 a week allowance worked well for my humble needs, and I didn’t necessarily want or need a job at that age, but my dad would ask me to run errands every now and then and let me keep some of the left-over […]
I first met Ari Horwitz in front of a pizzeria near the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal in 1978. I wasn’t in the habit of talking to people I didn’t know, but Ari was about my age, mid-20s, and we seemed to have an immediate psychic connection. Ari, it turned out, lived with a roommate […]
I am in my apartment in Woodside, Queens, reading C.S. Lewis. It is my first apartment that isn’t school housing, and I feel like a woman born again: reading, writing, thinking, manic with ideas and desires in a space all of my own. Though I am not Catholic- I’m technically Jewish but not in any […]
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