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Robert Redford and me: One suburban girl’s life-long love affair

Lisa Johnson School teacher September 17, 2025 — 7.30pm

It’s funny how time catches up with you, unscheduled moments forcing you to pause and reflect on how far you’ve travelled. One of those pauses came for me in the early hours of today, when I heard the news that Robert Redford had died. Yes, he was genetically blessed and ridiculously good-looking, loved by women the world over, but he was also an amazing actor, director, founder of the Sundance Film Festival and later the Sundance Institute, and a lifelong environmentalist.

To me, he represented much of my teenage existence and, along with a few significant teachers, led to me searching for more in life than what my surroundings s

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