Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

I’m not very good at talking about myself, so I’m just going to fumble my way through this. I was born Linda Faye Hood in Tampa, Florida in 1966. Thankfully, my parents had the good sense to move the family out of there before I learned to talk. Then again, considering my speech, maybe that wasn’t such a good thing.

I was shy, mainly because I stuttered, and partly because of my dynamic siblings. I couldn’t compete with them. So I withdrew into myself and started making up little stories.

By the way, I googled my name as well as my married name, and there are between 500 to 1,000 women who are of the same names depending on which last name you use. Therefore, I write under LF Gillis. I googled that and only found 6 of us. Hey! One of them is the cover to…