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    KAREN E. OSBORNE

    Oct 11, 2017 2 minutes

    Age: Sixty-nine. Residence: Port Saint Lucie, Florida. Book:Getting It Right (Akashic Books, June), a novel about half-sisters—one the product of an abusive foster-care situation, the other of dysfunctional privilege—who finally meet during their father’s final days. Editor: Marva Allen. Agent: Marie Brown of Marie Brown Associates.

    WRITING was always my dream. As a girl growing up in the Bronx, I told my friends stories

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