Remedy for Romance

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Aileen Benay Farley under the pen name of F. R. Lee
was born July on 28, 1917, in Illinois. At a young age,
she and her parents and sister relocated to Vero Beach,
Florida. In 1926, Aileens father built the house where
Aileen continued to live into her later years. Aileen went
to college in Chicago where she studied Dress Designing.
During this time, she was discovered, and became a high
fashion runway model during the 30s and 40s and into
the early 50s in New York City. She was also a model for Elizabeth Arden
Cosmetics, and was frequently on magazine covers, such as McCalls. Some
of her modeling pictures are also in the Library of Congress.
Over the years, Aileen drove back and forth from New York City to Vero
Beach in a 1956 Ford she called Henry, since she spent the winters in
Vero Beach avoiding the cold winters in the North. Aileen was not married
and had no children, and in later years, became very eccentric living in
the house built by her father. Aileen owned property in Vero Beach,
part of which was an orange grove, and another part of the property
had a natural hammock. At her propertys sale, she requested that the
hammock was not to be destroyed. While Aileen was in Vero Beach,
she would spend long hours tending to her citrus grove and property.
This property is an up-scale, gated community located in southwestern
Vero Beach and presently called Lost Hammock. In addition, the main
street through the community is named, Farleys Court after Aileen. The
original manuscript of this book Remedy for Romance, which Aileen
typed on a manual typewriter, was included among numerous pictures
of her modeling days, and discovered after her death in 2003.