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<\/a>Proof!<\/p><\/div>\n
The B&N staff seated me at a table near the front door. It was Friday-Night-Date-Night with lots of foot traffic, and sharing my table was the lovely and amazing Lisa Mangum <\/a>with her new book After Hello. <\/em>It was fun to see her again. We met last February at the ANWA Conference, where I learned that Lisa is a fellow Disneyland devotee, so I knew we could be friends. I just read her first book, The Hourglass Door,<\/em> a few weeks ago–in fact I listened to it on CD read in Lisa’s voice, so it was like I painted my daughters’ room with<\/em> Lisa, actually.<\/p>\n The coolest part was getting to see family and friends, though. The minute I arrived, who should appear but Elsie Park<\/a>, my lovely and creative author friend with her darling blue-eyed baby. Elsie writes medieval stories, but she’s also a beautiful mother and home-maker. I admire that so much.<\/p>\n As for family, besides mi madre, my favorite cousin Kara <\/a>came in with her three cute little girls, and my three favorite Aunts–Mary and Kass and Lora–came. And my favorite cousin Chris <\/a>came with his wife Natalie. He claims Buck from\u00a0Big in Japan<\/em> <\/a>is based on him. My other favorite cousin Cody’s wife Mary <\/a>came in with her kids, too. They disappeared into the belly of the store and looked for kid books. She is training them well!<\/p>\n Then I got to see an old friend Ron, who brought his wife and three kids. Ron and I worked together on a campaign (oh my goodness!) TWENTY years ago this fall. It was so totally fun to see him and catch up and see his kids and … yeah. Great! So fun!<\/p>\n