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Millions of people watched sportscaster George Michael each week on the Sports Machine, including his daughter Cindi. Cindi Michael appears to live a charmed life: she's happily married, has a successful career, and is a loving mom to two wonderful children. Yet she longs for a father who hasn't spoken to her in twenty years, and even secretly watches him on TV when the longing becomes unbearable. When Cindi was eleven, her father fought for sole custody of her and her siblings, raising three children on his own despite being a bachelor and rock 'n' roll DJ in New York in the 1970s. But with his rising fame as the host of the popular show Sports Machine, his 80-hour-a-week work schedule, and his second marriage, the close relationship Cindi shared with her father began to crack; she did everything to earn his love and attention, but for perfectionist George, it was never enough -- and when she was eighteen and a freshman in college, in a burst of anger he told her never to come home again.
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Reading and writing has been my solace and inspiration from the time I was six. I never thought I would have the stamina to write a full-length book, so in high school and college, I only wrote short stories. Many of my stories were fictionalized accounts of my family life. There's so much material - ugly custody battle, famous Dad, dysfunctional family - and I love the happy endings that fiction allows. Real life can be harder, more complicated.
I have been lucky to travel the world from England to Switzerland and to live abroad for several years. I now live in BEAUTIFUL, rural New Jersey, where black bear and red fox roam my neighborhood. I could do without the deer.
