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Born in Montreal and raised in Cape Breton, Cindy grew up by the sea. She spent her childhood jumping from rock to rock along the rugged beach with her black lab and her friends, binoculars in hand on the family-owned whale watching boat, and reading lots and lots of books. The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Anne of Green Gables, Littlest House on the Prairie, Pippi Longstocking and anything by Madeleine L’Engle.

She moved around a bit and had many different occupations. Tour guide on the whale watching boat, T-shirt seller in Banff, bookstore clerk in Yellowknife, tree-planter in BC, oyster picker on Denman Island, English teacher in South Korea.

For most of her adult life, she had to carry identification, to prove her name really was Cindy Crawford. As a result, she published three children’s books under the name CJ Crawford. Luckily for her, she got married in 2020. Bah-bye supermodel moniker!

On November 1,2021, she had a stroke. Before 11am, she could walk and talk. After 11am, she could not. The ICU doctor told her family she might never go home. Two weeks later, she walked out of the hospital. Her speech and arm are still in recovery. She went back to work almost a year later. They would not adjust her duties to accommodate her speech issues, so after seven months she found herself, disconsolately, back on disability.

She has been writing ever since.