![]() She created an oasis for her friends to visit. ![]() She decided she was going to turn this series of unfortunate events into a triumph, and for a decade and a half she did just that. Most people would have, given the nature of these events, thrown in the towel and made their way back to Denmark, battered and bruised and hoped that people had short memories of them ever being gone, but Blixen was made of sterner stuff. She let him live, which was touch and go, booted him off the farm, and took over the management of the Kenyan farming enterprise. Her husband proved a poor manager of the farm, and his sexual indiscretions had left her with a parting gift of a case of syphilis. When Karen Blixen married her second cousin Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke in 1914 and followed along as a devoted wife should to help him run a coffee plantation in Kenya, I’m sure she had an idea of what her life was to be, but the story of our lives generally deviates from the perceptions our youthful fancies conceive. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.” ![]() ”Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. ![]()
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