Since The Family She Never Met includes many stories from my past woven into the fictional storyline, I wanted to pull out the threads of the real stories for my daughter so that she might understand her family’s history better. That meant highlighting those stories in the book and also providing additional backstory so she could better understand what had happened at the time and what I was feeling when some of those things happened.
So I sat down, pen, highlighter, and paper at hand to flesh out those parts of the book for my daughter and create a very special edition for her. I hope she will read it and appreciate the struggle that made me who I am today and also shaped who she is and what that means for the future.
P.S. – Thanks, to my good friend Jayne for the Cat Mom mug and my wonderful son-in-law Danny for the great typewriter pen holder.