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Georgette Symonds

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in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
November 10

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Georgette Symonds was raised in an Irish Catholic family in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up in an apartment building in Brooklyn was like living in the United Nations. Each apartment had a family of a different culture. Aromas would fill the building; Italian sauce simmering on a stove, Polish kielbasa tempting the pallet, or her mother’s Irish rice pudding calling her name. She is proud to be a Brooklynite. She spent the first twelve years of her education in the parochial school system. Following a career in nursing and raising a family Georgette went on to volunteer for the police department in the Criminal Investigations Unit. Utilizing her knowledge of spiritual and emotional conflict she became a published author. Having always had a ...more

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Georgette Symonds Always end the day with something else to write. The hardest place to start is with an empty page.
Georgette Symonds Write. Write and write some more.
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Bless Me Father

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Look Not Upon Our Sins

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“His hand tightened on the coppiced knob handle of his shillelagh when he also saw the deteriorating fabric. Bridget and Peter had walked together through this wooded area on the north side of Glencar Lake many times over these last four years searching for some telltale sign of Meg.”
Georgette Symonds, Look Not Upon Our Sins

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway

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