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Susan Schoenberger

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Susan Schoenberger is the award-winning author of A Watershed Year and The Virtues of Oxygen. With a linotype operator as a grandfather, she has ink in her blood.

Susan worked as a journalist and copyeditor for many years, including for The Hartford Courant and The Baltimore Sun, and currently serves as Director of Communications at Hartford Seminary, a graduate school with a focus on interfaith dialogue. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband, Kevin. They have three grown children and a small dog named Leo.

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The Virtues of Oxygen
3.91 avg rating — 2,956 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions
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“ignore all the aggravation that life throws your way, because none of it means anything in the end.”
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“Looking back, I realize that nobody likes to be reminded of the fragility of the human condition.”
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“The way of God is complex, He is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.”
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Boyd Lemon Thank you for adding me as a friend, Susan.

Boyd Lemon-Author of “Eat, Walk, Write: An American Senior’s Year of Adventure in Paris and Tuscany,” "Digging Deep: A Writer Uncovers His Marriages," the author’s journey to understand his role in the destruction of his three marriages and “Unexpected Love and Other Stories. Information, reviews and excerpts: http://www.BoydLemon-Writer.com.
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