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My interest in vintage and literature began in first grade. By age nine, I was reading avidly every day. Around age ten, my mother gave me a locked diary, which became my first creative outlet. She also encouraged my love of books by giving me the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries collection, a staple of my daily reading in the 1970s. In 1979, after earning money from chores, I bought my first book at a local bookstore. Though I was only ten, I chose V.C. Andrews’ “Flowers in the Attic,” the first book in her series. Her books were among the first of many to inspire my storytelling. Deep down, I knew I would someday become an author. I had a vivid imagination as a child, and I still do. From age six, I showed strong intuitive psychic mediumship abilities, especially when I spoke of my deceased sister, whose existence had never been shared with me. But in my traditional Italian Catholic family, expressing these gifts was difficult. When I mentioned my “imaginary friends,” my Nana—my grandmother’s mother—would panic, take me to church for a holy-water blessing, and have me confess and recite 10 Hail Marys and 10 Our Fathers. As a teenager, my mother and grandfather revealed the truth about our family’s shared “gifts.” I was a natural-born psychic medium, part of an ancestral line of psychics, mediums, tarot readers, and healers in Sicily and Italy on both my mother’s and father’s sides. Looking back, my devoutly Catholic Nana, who was part of this ancestral line, was trying to spare me from what was inherent in me, lol. Because I love storytelling, I created Storyteller Book Haven, which features written eBooks and musical audiobooks narrated by me. Through my distinctive spoken style and a range of literary genres, I take readers and listeners on a magical journey.