Cynthia Friedlob has been a writer since the age of thirteen when her first story was published in a slim volume of student compositions compiled by her English teacher and distributed to the entire junior high school. Over the years, she's written everything from song lyrics to animated TV shows, from live action movie scripts to books.

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