Linda Zapata

her profile is so beautiful it's pure joy neither could have predicted it but digging for the truth would involve terrible choices and betrayal it all started in madison in the early 1950s when peggy and jean first became best friends

There are two kinds of friends.

One is the kind of friend who said, oh, you're driving off the cliff.

Don't do that.

But then there are the friends like Jean who say, oh, you're going to drive off a cliff?

Let's go together.

She was a lot of fun.

Peggy was with her best friend for all the good times, when Gene married a promising engineer, Eugene Zapata, when they had three children, Christine, Steve, and Linda.

Linda is 43 years old now.

Did you spend time with her alone much, or?

Yeah, mainly as I got older, watching Sesame Street with my blanket and sitting on the living room floor and her just being around the house.

So really fond memories.

Eugene went to work for the Department of Transportation, but his wife was no stay-at-home mom.

Once the kids were in school, Jean returned to her other love, flying.

and became one of the few female flight instructors of her day.

I mean, she was almost a trailblazer in a way.

Yes, she was.

Trailblazer is a very good description of her.

So, how long was she happy with Eugene?

Probably the first half of their marriage.