Daily News | The Philly journalist who boat-hopped around the Mediterranean, sailed across the Atlantic, and beat cancer
Nearly 20 years ago Margie Smith Holt was working in communications at the Kimmel Center after an Emmy-winning career in TV news. She was soon to turn 40 and get married to her boyfriend.
A few months later, with winter approaching, Smith Holt and the same friend decided to spend the frosty months in the tropics. “I voted for president and left the next day,” she said in a recent phone interview. “November of 2004.” . When she first decided to write the book, years after she’d returned from St. John, beat Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and married, the plan was to focus mostly on her own story.
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