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My real name is Mary Lee Hayden
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I am married to
Philip B. Hayden
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We were high school sweethearts
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We
married 20 years after high school
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It was his first
marriage
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It was not my first
marriage
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I have 2 grown sons, Brian, who is 28 and a real
estate broker in Phoenix, AZ, and Scott, who is 25, lives in Charlotte, NC, and is a writer.
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We live in Knoxville,
Tennessee
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We moved here from South Florida in October,
2001
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We built a home on 5 acres we own
outside of Maryville, Tennessee
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My favorite color is
lavender
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My favorite flavor of ice cream is Pecan Praline
Sundae by Bryers/Dressler
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I love to quilt
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I enjoy
doing any kind of needlework
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I love to read
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My
favorite author is Francine Rivers
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My favorite book is
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
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I love the mountains
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I am about 75 pounds overweight
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I have taught myself
everything I know on the computer
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I taught myself how to
create web pages
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My hair is currently blond
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My natural
color for my hair used to be dark brown, but now seems to have some
natural frosting in it
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I have a beautiful little Pekingese
named Annabelle
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I also have a
Tuxedo cat named Maxx
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We recently adopted
a little grey fluffy kitten named Tara
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I enjoy watching crime shows on TV
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My
favorite actor is Mel Gibson
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My favorite actress is Meryl Streep
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My parents both passed away
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I survived
Hurricane Andrew on August 24, 1992
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My mother passed away
September 9, 1992
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My father passed away August 2, 1993
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My birthday is May 12, 1955
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My hubby and I married on May 10,
1993
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I am an empty nester now
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I have a brother
named Gene Pinnell who is 6 years older than me
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I have a
sister named Amy Yeatman who is 4 years younger than me
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My
brother lives in Orlando, Florida
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My sister lives in Southeast
Florida
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Many of my relatives live in Louisville,
Kentucky
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My maiden name is Gruneisen
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My education
includes some college
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I have lived in Kansas City,
Missouri
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I have lived in Charlotte, North Carolina when I was
a child
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I was born in Miami, Florida
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I am
adopted
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I was 3 years old before I was able to be
adopted
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I almost died from malnutrition when I was 9 months
old
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I have made up for that and more! (see #19)
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My
dream vacation would be to go on a cruise to Alaska
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I love
most kinds of music except heavy metal and profanity/violent
songs
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I hate roller coasters
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I have an illness called Chronic Pancreatitis
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I became sick in April, 2001
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I am unable to work and am awaiting a hearing with
Social Security Disability
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I spend a lot of time on the computer
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I have 2 computers
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My desktop computer is in my home office
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My laptop computer is in my bedroom where I can use
it whenever I'm too sick to sit in my office
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I am a member of
Women
Who Believe, a wonderful group of loving, caring ladies
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I am a Christian, a believer in Jesus Christ, Our
Lord
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I am Catholic
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I spent my life until 17 in the Church
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At 17, I believed the lies of Jack Chick and his
contemporaries and left the Church
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God led me home to His Church after 30 years, when I
was 47
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I've taught Bible studies in both Southern Baptist
and Catholic groups