Today it is beyond belief as are the gardens and the equally old Angel Oaks that drip Spanish moss. The dump was a 300 year old plantation house that is listed in the National Registry that I remodeled. The kids were all on their own at that point. I figured if I was going to go through trauma let it be all at one time. Several years ago I left Ballantine Books, parted company with my agent, sold my house in New Jersey that I had lived in all my married life and in 1993 moved to South Carolina. Guess what else! I wrote 99 books, most of them New York Times Best Sellers. Guess what, I don’t have that husband any more. As my husband said at the time, stupid is as stupid does. For some reason that didn’t intimidate me. Rather than face the outside world with no skills, I decided to write a book. I was also a voracious reader having cut my teeth on The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Cherry Ames and the like. I didn’t know how to do anything except be a wife and mother. When my youngest went off to Kindergarten, my husband told me to get off my ass and get a job. I grew up, got a job, got married, had five kids. However, I answer to Fern since people are more comfortable with a name they can pronounce.Īs they say, the past is prologue. To this day, family and friends call me Dink, a name my father gave me when I was born because according to him I was ‘a dinky little thing’ weighing in at four and a half pounds. I became Mary when I entered the business world where first names were the order of the day. Growing up in Hastings, Pennsylvania, I was called Ruth. I’m not sure she’s an entity either since an entity is something with separate existence.
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