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First lady with a cause
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| Contributor | The Sunset Provision |
| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Aug 06, 2007 01:13pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Rocky Mountain News |
| News Date | Monday, August 6, 2007 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Shortly after Jeannie Ritter became Colorado's first lady in January, her predecessor shared a bit of hard-earned perspective.
"It won't last forever," former first lady Frances Owens told her. "Every day you're closer to being the ex-first lady of Colorado."
Ritter, 51, took it to heart. "At that point I knew I had this short window of opportunity," she said in a recent interview in the sunroom of the Governor's Mansion.
It perhaps explains her fast start out of the blocks on the issue of mental health awareness.
Driven in part by her experiences with a bipolar sister, Ritter said she wants to use her position to make talking about the topic as normal as talking about food and drink.
"We have an extensive language about coffee, but at the same time we don't know what bipolar is, and people don't know the difference between anxiety and severe anxiety."
Ritter is committed to changing that, she said as she curled in a chair in her khaki shorts and flip-flops and talked about the wild, inspiring ride she has been on since assuming her first role in public life seven months ago.
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