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Maura Casey grew up the youngest of six in a Buffalo, NY, Irish family. She began writing at 12 , turning her passion into a 30+ journalism career, winning over 40 awards. Maura is a former editorial writer for The New York Times and three other newspapers. Currently she writes a weekly column on Substack with thousands of subscribers called Casey's Catch. Readers can contact her through her column or her website, www.CaseyInk. She is a gifted editor, writing coach and public speaker.

Maura used the diaries she wrote as a teenager to help write the book. She was surprised to see that they had pages of dialogue, her mother’s wit, scenes of her sister’s determination and her father’s alcoholism. From her diaries she fashioned a narrative arc t
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We just finished Memorial Day in America, the day when we honor those who died on battlefields defending our country. Parades, speeches and trumpets playing Taps abounded.

My social media feed was replete with pictures of soldiers and everyone’s memories of them, whether or not they died in the middle of a war or warm in their beds decades later. Such attention and gratitude is absolutely right an

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