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Gender	Female
Occupation	Therapist. Writer. Wife. Aunt (not in that order)
Location	Newark, Delaware, United States
Introduction	I am a writer and mental health therapist working on my first book, Doris, Sophia and Me: A Memoir About My Mother Who Didn't Live Long Enough and My Daughter Who Was Never Born. Set against the backdrop of the death of mother and my unsuccessful journey of infertility, it weaves my raw, poignant and sometimes humorous experiences in loving, losing and learning. It chronicles my attempts to reckon myself with the incongruence of my childhood fantasies of how I imagined life as a grown-up with how things actually turned out. I write a bi-monthly column at SavvyAuntie.com and in addition to being an identical twin married to an identical twin, I am wife of husband (in this blog he is referred to as The Bird) who loves me like you see only in the movies. One of my other favorite roles is being Aunt Steph to 38 nieces and nephews! My obsession with old fashioned slate chalkboards requires an intervention and to this day I still love the Brady Bunch. On an even lighter note, I wear pink lipstick. It's how I met my best friend, Stephanie in college. Clinique's shade fresh strawberry...at first glance, we had each other at, "fresh strawberry, right?"
Interests	Philly sports (I love local sports radio!), Villanova men's basketball, antiques, any and all animals!, gardening, reading, cooking and baking (especially making Italian cookies for family and friends) and tennis
Favorite Movies	It's A Wonderful Life, Rocky, Elf, The Prince of Tides, What About Bob?, The Sound of Music, Bruce Almighty
Favorite Music	My IPod has everything from Chaka Khan, Raschal Flatts, Van Morrison and James Taylor to old school disco
Favorite Books	A MUST read-This Is Not The Story You Think It Is by Laura Munson. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope by Joan Chittister, A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, The Element:How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, Ken Robinson, Phd with Lou Aronica, The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard, The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan, I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb, A Weekend To Change Your Life by Joan Anderson

These are my stories but more importantly, what is your story?