Magazine writer and editor Lori Tharps was born and raised in the comfortable but mostly White suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she was often the only person of color in her school and neighborhood.
Arriving in the country as an optimist.
Still, she never faltered in her plans to escape to the Iberian Peninsula.
She didn\'t know anyone from Spain, had never visited the country, and hardly spoke the language.
At an early age, Lori decided that her destiny would be discovered in Spain.
Magazine writer and editor Lori Tharps was born and raised in the comfortable but mostly White suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she was often the only person of color in her school and neighborhood