Swallowing the Wolf

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

For her entire life, people have told Julia Mossbridge that she is smart. So when she graduated from Oberlin College, in 1991, she did what smart students do: She went to graduate school, enrolling in a Ph.D. program in neuroscience at the University of California at San Francisco.

"I was on this academic success track," she says. "I found myself confusing my love...

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