Danny's Boy - Paperback

Rossin, Laurie Ann: - "Laurie Ann Rossin (Swonger) was born in July, 1953 and spent most of her childhood with parents and two brothers in the Saint Paul suburb of Maplewood, Minnesota. When she was about nine years' old, she found a book of Alfred Hitchcock stories on her aunt's bookshelf (she was supposed to be napping) and was hooked. She loved to watch "The Twilight Zone" on TV, read stories by Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King and other spooky authors and was thrillingly scared to death by the movie "Wait Until Dark." Her favorite scary stories contained enough reality to be plausible but stretched her imagination to wonder "what if?" Her teen years were spent in Golden Valley and she graduated in 1971 from Armstrong High School in Plymouth. In the early seventies, she attended Concordia University in Saint Paul as a liberal arts student with a concentration in music and English literature. She decided that she didn't want to teach and didn't think she could make a living in either music or literature so at age 19 she quit college to work in business. Later in life, as an adult student in Augsburg's Weekend College program, she earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration followed by a challenging and rewarding career in the 401(k) retirement plan industry. In 1996, as moral and legal controversies swirled around the news of Dolly the first cloned sheep, Laurie wondered what a human clone would experience in family and social life. She began writing Danny's Boy and as the story developed found that it wasn't a spooky or sci-fi story, but one that challenged her once again to explore "what if?" Danny's story waited patiently while the author's professional life, new marriage to conductor Dr. Thomas Rossin and love for her step-children and grandchildren took priority. In 2013 she found the original printed manuscript and floppy disc in a box and after reading it wondered, "Whatever happened to Danielle?" Published in 2016, Danny's Boy is only the beginning of Danielle's story. Rossin plans to release book two - a continuation of Danny's story."