Patricia brennan demuth biography sample

I grew up in a little town in Iowa. Really little. All around us was a sea—but it was a green sea, full of corn. Back then, our town (named Jesup) had one grocery store, a one-room library, and one traffic light. The ancient movie theater had been turned into a chicken feed store.

Our town was tiny, but my family was BIG. There were eleven of us. That’s a lot of potatoes to peel. (Clue: We were Irish). I adored my family: Dad, Mom, Mary, Rite, Pat (me), Tess; Bill, Joe, John, Ed, Tom. Did you notice that four girls came first, then five boys? Bing, bing, bing, bing—we sisters were born a year apart. Not only close in age, we were close friends, too.

We played the regular games—baseball, Annie Annie Over, Kick the Can down the middle of our street (except on the summer day when the tar trucks lumbered through, dumping smelly black gunk over the dirt and gravel town streets to keep the dust down.)

And like all kids everywhere, we made up games. The scariest was “I Dare You”

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