title: Stealing: Life In America: A Collection of Essays
author: Michelle Cacho-Negrete
description: Michelle Cacho-Negrete is an award-winning author who currently lives in Portland Maine with her husband Kevin Smith, a prominent scientist, editor and author.She was born in Brooklyn and many of her essays are about her childhood.Michelle's original degree was in clinical social work and she worked for many years with victims of domestic violence, helped establish a woman's shelter in New York, and co-facilitated a batterer education program for violent men on probation. Four of Michelle essays have been among the 100 most notable of the year and one essay won Best of Net.She is in five anthologies, including a Norton College anthology. UTNE called her essay about George Bush and the environment excellent writing.She is nonfiction co-editor for Solstice Literary Magazine. Stealing: Life in America is her first book.
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  # Stealing Their Forever
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © Lonnie Doris 2020
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
  distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a
  database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of Lonnie
  Doris and Terri Anne Browning, except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright
  Act of 1976.
  
  
  
  
  
  Stealing Their Forever
  
  
  Part of The Rocker…Series Universe by Terri Anne Browning
  
  
  Written by Lonnie Doris
  
  
  All Rights Reserved ©Lonnie Doris 2020
  
  
  Cover Design by Cassy Roop of Pink Ink Designs
  
  
  Edited by Lisa Hollett of Silently Correcting Your Grammar
  
  
  
  
  
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  _**Stealing Their Forever** _is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places,
  and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or
  dead, is entirely 