I am lovingly adored by my husband, respected and appreciated by my three *sort of* adult children, exercised regularly by my boxer and lab mix dogs, and well-practiced in care-taking for a tortoise and gecko who otherwise would starve to death. When not being placed on a pedestal by the humans and animals in my life, I can be found reading, gardening, or hiking, and sometimes enjoying a glass of wine or a bottle of cider in my backyard oasis in the Mitten State.

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