I ONCE HEARD someone refer to Breathed as the scar of the paradise we lost. So it was in many ways, a place with a perfect wound just below the surface.
I grew up in both south central and southern Ohio, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, where I still live. I love the Appalachian culture. The twangy dialect, the long standing traditions, and the sense of myth and legend roaming the hills. Breathed is a fictional name but inspired by my home town. Breathed was born when I first wrote BETTY nearly twenty years ago. Though my mother was born in Arkansas and moved around the country with her family in her early years, they settled in the southern Ohio town. Breathed has become a character itself, and is the setting for the majority of my novels written to date.
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