Education and Personal Life
Nelson was born in the Midwestern United States and received her undergraduate degree from University of Maryland, College Park, College of Journalism and speaks Persian, Dari, and German in addition to her native English. She has one son with her journalist husband, Erik Nelson.
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“Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influence which flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.”
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