55: Not the Author

I confess to be somewhat puzzled about Prompt #55. It is to write a 150-character character sketch of someone named "Margaret Mallory". What's puzzling is that there is a published author named Margaret Mallory. She writes romance fiction.

I hope that it is obvious that this profile of a fictional woman is not of THAT Margaret Mallory. It should be even more obvious that my daughter's version of this profile is also not THAT Margaret Mallory, unless she's also a particularly cool superhero.

Dr. Margaret Mallory, Ph.D. is not that Margaret Mallory. She's a marriage counselor in Memphis, Tennessee.  To be honest, she's a bit ambivalent about having the same name as a successful romance novelist. It gets her business, but she's tired of explaining.

Ironically, she's married to Rev. Ben Bova, a Congregationalist minster who is not the famous science fiction author. They've been married five years and have no children, at least not yet.

Maggie and Ben really like movies. They often spend entire weekends watching one movie after another on DVD or online. Sometimes, they go to the theater, but they prefer staying home and cuddling. They like almost any kind of movie, except that Maggie doesn't like westerns at all, and Ben can't stand Eddie Murphy.

Maggie's family is from Chicago. She loves her mother and father, and she looks forward to talking with them each week after the Bears game.

[Dear Ms. Mallory the author: Since you happened by this page, I want to wish you the best, and give my my hopes and prayer that you are still having fun writing.]

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