Although this is her first book, Deloris Delluomo has been a prolific writer for most of her adult life. She published Lawton Magazine, which later expanded to Texhoma Monthly, and The Lawton Times, a small weekly newspaper, in which she wrote feature articles, two of the most notable being interviews with country music star Hank Williams, Jr., and Larry Jones of the International charity Feed the Children. She has written op-ed pieces for The Lawton Constitution, The Daily Oklahoman, and The Oklahoma Observer. Although she was born and raised in rural Oklahoma, she has lived in Cleveland, Kansas City, and, Phoenix, and traveled the world with her late husband in his capacity as a Nissan automobile dealer from 1975 to 1995.
She and her husband raised four children. Dana, Monty, Jamie, and Paul, all of whom have been and are serious animal advocates. She lives in Lawton, Oklahoma.


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