I was born in Leesburg, North Carolina, but grew up in both Leesburg and Blanch, two small rural farming communities. My parents sharecropped tobacco until I left home at age nineteen.

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I always wanted to write. When I was eleven, I wrote a three-page story and hid it under the mattress. I caught my mother reading it one day. Her interest was enough to fertilize that writing seed in me. Now that I am older and bolder and have time to write, I will.

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While in high school, I was told I was not a brilliant student, which I needed to be in order to study journalism. Well, I'm not a journalist, but I still have a burning desire to write about topics and issues that interest me. You see, I believe that each of us has a responsibility to pass along the best thoughts and ideas of ourselves to those willing to receive them.

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Some of the things I write