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M.L. Barrs

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ML Barrs ran TV newsrooms for years, guiding and managing the content and production of more than eight hours of live newscasts a day.
In her debut novel, Parallel Secrets, protagonist Vicky Robeson shares that kind of experience as well as the author’s passion for justice, especially when it comes to the safety and well-being of children and other vulnerable people.
ML Barrs grew up one of thirteen children—the first girl, with three older brothers—a birth order she believes shaped her essence by the time she was eight. A girl’s gotta be a bit pugnacious to get along in that environment. Amid the chaos of fourteen people living in a mobile home (not a double-wide), she turned fifteen, dropped out of school and ran away from home.
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My Mother’s Bridge

The holidays always bring to mind those who are no longer here to celebrate with us. I'd like to share something I wrote about my Mom.

Four young girls, the youngest perhaps eleven, the oldest still a teen, fell sobbing at the sight of the twisted, fallen steel. They had walked for days, hungry, scared, hiding in trees as soldiers searched below. The railroad bridge, the only route across the rive

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