Author: Megan Sukys

Never much of an athlete, Megan Sukys drew on other talents during a mandatory all-camp game.
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Unable to talk her way out of the traditional Capture the Flag game at her first camp job, Megan Sukys had to look for other ways to stay competitive on the field. It wasn’t until she faced down her Camp Director, a competitive triathlete, that she found her secret weapon for speed.

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Paul Currington ignored many signposts on the path to choosing life.
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Paul Currington spiraled into deep depression after a long-term relationship ended. Then, a failed suicide attempt led him to an array of unconventional – and often barely effective – support that kept him stumbling toward a new reason to live.

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Jean McCord went from writing a crime novel to toting her own gun as a deputy.
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Despite a childhood fear of law enforcement, at the age of fifty Jean McCord became the only female reserve deputy in Pierce County, Washington. On her second night, she found herself on the trail of a murder suspect.

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Gene Ryan was always a “rule follower” – until he discovered his Paradise in Ecuador.
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After biking from Vancouver, B.C. almost all the way to Peru, Gene Ryan needed some time to rest. What was supposed to be a short stay in the Valley of Longevity, though, turned into an increasingly challenging pursuit of a little more time in his happy place.

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When her eight-year-old son asked for love advice, Kellie Richardson had to blaze her own path to good mothering.
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Kellie Richardson knew she would do things differently than her disco-queen-turned-housewife mom. And she seemed to succeed with her first child. Then, she had a son with the spirit of a caveman poet. His second-grade love pains forced her to redefine the image of perfect parenthood she had been chasing.

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On the last day of his mall store job, Dean Burke skated the edge of law enforcement.
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Dean Burke was a competitive speed skater in his youth. That came in handy when he had to fulfill a rite of passage at the sporting good store where he worked, skating the mall in an American flag Speedo – and little else.

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