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Lorna Collins

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Lorna Collins co-authored 31 Months in Japan: The Building of a Theme Park, a memoir, published in 2005 with her husband, Larry K. Collins. They are also the authors of two cozy mysteries: Murder...They Wrote, and Murder in Paradise. Their latest collaboration is The Memory Keeper, a historical novel.
She and her husband completed a story idea begun by her brother following his death. Dominic Drive is a coming-of age story set in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Lorna has co-written six romance anthologies: Snowflake Secrets, Seasons of Love, Directions of Love (2011 EPIC eBook Award for Romance Anthology), The Art of Love, ...And a Silver Sixpence in Her Shoe, and An Aspen Grove Christmas
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USJ 25th Anniversary – Part 9 - Closing a Circle

 April 1, 2026

We ate breakfast at the hotel as usual, and as usual, loved watching all the kids excited about going to the park. This had become one of my very favorite parts of our day.

Afterward, we walked around CityWalk, visited the USJ store, and picked up a few gift items to take home with us.

We had made arrangements for our #2 Japanese daughter, Yasuko, and her husband, Toshiyuki, to meet us

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Lorna Collins Christine wrote: "thanks for being my friend"

You're welcome. Check out my books on Goodreads, too.


Christine Hatfield thanks for being my friend


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Beth Hi Lorna,
Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery author on Goodreads!


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Lorna Collins Thanks for yours as well!


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Zetta HI LORNA!!! Thanks for the add :D

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