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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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Is this another ‘War of Holy Defense’?

Swaddled in the mandatory cloak and veil for any woman in the Islamic Republic of Iran, I stood in the martyrs’ section of Berhesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran and gazed at the seemingly endless graves of war dead. Most had pictures of the fallen -- rows upon rows of dark-eyed, dark-haired young men, many teenagers. It was a sweltering June day, but I forgot my own discomfort from wearing layers of

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