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Saturday, April 23, 2016

IRISH GOTHIC

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Features Editor at The Herald-News in Joliet, Illinois. Author of the literary/supernatural BryonySeries trilogy, as well as its spinoffs for younger readers, and a fundraising cookbook of Victorian and 1970's recipes. Co-founder and co-leader of WriteOn Joliet. Mother of six adult children, grandmother of many.
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