Mary Bell strives to avoid tired cliches like “people person” but must ironically admit that she is a periodically tired people person, who is also grateful for opportunities to try to dance gracefully with words. To this end, she has written for The Huffington Post, Segullah, LDS Living, and just signed a contract for a book with a New York literary agency. She and her husband Tom are the parents of seven biological children and a bonus little girl who is a bit like a Native American version of Anne of Greene Gables.
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