Alicia Has a Bad Day by Lisa Clough5/12/2023 I have had a life full of rich and unique experiences, although it was around age eleven when I began to more keenly ex perience the sufferings of growing up, beginning with my parents' divorce and then being diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, and later when I left for college, my father's death. I have always felt very connected to Maine, especially to Monhegan Island which is about half-way up the coast and where my family has been going since the 1940's. We left the farm life behind and lived in a town where I could walk to school. My brother and I collected lots of bugs and butterflies. We had a pet monkey for a while, who we named Zephyr after the monkey in the Babar books. My father was a zoologist, with an interest in mammals, so we often had animals around. I recall my farm years as idyllic: I had an older brother, a best friend, goats, acres of woods to explore, and the ocean at the end of the road. Long BIO - personal: I was born in Rhode Island on a small farm and except for a two-year interlude in Norway between ages 2-4, and summers spent on Monhegan Island, Maine, I lived on the farm until I was ten.
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