Babette and I host our first dinner party together and she describes her favorite escargot recipe before pulling a wine switch on our guests. Afterward I invite a classmate out dancing to my favorite gothic club and we spend an unforgettable evening together.
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Babette's enthusiasm for cinema leads to a late night dessert mission and political discussion.
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A weekend visit to hear the Seattle symphony in Yakima exposes more of Babette's eccentricities. 
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I hear more sensational stories about Babette's childhood in Europe during WWII from the Indian-Axis volunteers under Subhas Chandra Bose, her cousin little Foulques enlisting in the Waffen SS, Vichy collaboration amongst de Lareinty-Tholozon family members and how she survived the end of the war.
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Babette takes me on a trip to the old Rajneesh compound, now under Young Life management, and begins stirring up trouble. We spend time exploring the high desert and my professor sustains a strange injury.
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Babette tells me about her relationship with the old Rajneesh Puram commune in Oregon. Our religious conversations lead to her favorite biblical historian S.G.F. Brandon and his excellent research on the subject. She presses me to read Jesus and the Zealots as an introduction.
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My professor discovers DVD technology and we embark on a trip to Music Millennium in search of some operas.
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Babette reveals the curious circumstances involving her teenage birth mother Mildred Sweet-Holm in Yakima, plus the involvement of Germaine Bonnefont and Robert Brown Sr. The saga leads from upper class French society to revolutionary Ireland in 1919 and winds through the rural Northwest. 
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I create a detailed list of overstocked pantry items and confront Babette with her hoarding. She reluctantly acknowledges food storage has become a problem and we arrive at a creative solution.
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My professor expands on her love for Marcus Aurelius. While dining at the golf course nearby, a dark view into my professor's childhood is exposed. Content warning: child abuse
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