Free Preview: Playmate of the Month May 1997 - Lynn Thomas
Between several sips of ice water at a chic Chicago watering hole, Lynn Thomas works intensely on herlatest artistic endeavor - building a house of sugar packets. As a studio art major at a college near New York City, Miss May is more accustomed to working in a medium of sheet lead when she sculpts. But Lynn is a resourceful soul. "I'm going to start living after I get out of school," she says, explaining how she handles the challenge of an accelerated course load that will enable her to graduate in three years. "I'm future-oriented - driven, in a sense." She also conveys an air of mystery. This may partly be because of her alluring features, but it also may have to do with being, by her own admission, "very shy." Put these seemingly disparate qualities together, and it seems apt that her name in Vietnamese, Linh, translates as "spirit or intuition." <br><br> Lynn's parents met in Saigon, where her father was stationed during the Vietnam war, and settled near Virginia Beach. They divorced when Lynn was five, and her mother raised her and her older sister while working as a manicurist. "I call her a nail technician," Lynn says, "because she's really an artist." (The first time she practiced her art on Lynn was for Lynn's Playmate shoot.) <br><br> Lynn speaks of her mother with reverence. "My mom has had her share of tragedies. I don't know all the details - she speaks of her life in Vietnam in short interludes. I'd love to go there with her someday. We've gotten really clo...
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