title: My Sister Marilyn: A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe
author: Mona Miracle
description: Berniece Miracle was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Kentucky. She has worked as a manufacturing inspector, costume designer and bookkeeper. Mona earned graduate degrees from University of Florida and Nova University. She studied acting with Lee Strasberg. Read about her forthcoming publications at MonaRaeMiracle.com
zlib_text: For	Marilyn	and	Don	Walsh
  
  Title	Page
  Dedication
  Part	One
  Chapter	One
  Chapter	Two
  Chapter	Three
  Chapter	Four
  Chapter	Five
  Chapter	Six
  Chapter	Seven
  Chapter	Eight
  Chapter	Nine
  Chapter	Ten
  Chapter	Eleven
  Chapter	Twelve
  Chapter	Thirteen
  Chapter	Fourteen
  Chapter	Fifteen
  Chapter	Sixteen
  Chapter	Seventeen
  Part	Two
  Chapter	Eighteen
  Chapter	Nineteen
  Chapter	Twenty
  
  Chapter	Twenty-One
  Chapter	Twenty-Two
  Sneak	peek	at	The	Beautiful	Lost
  Acknowledgments
  About	the	Author
  Also	by	Luanne	Rice
  Copyright
  
  When	you	come	from	a	big	family,	you’re	never	alone—or	at	least,	not
  often	enough.	That	afternoon,	all	I	wanted	to	do	was	walk	home	by	myself.
  But	Bea,	my	next-oldest	sister—we	were	seven	siblings	in	all—was	crowding
  me.
  “Are	you	okay?”	Bea	asked	as	we	stood	on	the	steps	of	Black	Hall	High
  after	school.
  “Yes!	I’m	excellent!”	I	said,	injecting	an	extra	dash	of	pep	into	my	words
  to	convince	her	to	go	on	her	merry	way.
  “You	don’t	seem	okay,”	Bea	said.
  “Just	because	I	feel	like	walking	home?”
  “Well,	you	