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Talk Softly Author, Cynthia O’Neal, Honored By New York City Family Caregiver Coalition

November 9, 2010

Nov. 9, 2010, 6:00PM, Cynthia O’Neal, author of Talk Softly and co-founder and president of Friends In Deed, will be honored at the New York City Family Caregiver Coalition’s fifth annual Celebration and Gratitude event. A signing will follow the program. Location: Emblem Health Conference Center at 55 Water Street New York, NY 10041.

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Cynthia O’Neal and Talk Softly profiled in San Francisco Chronicle

June 24, 2010

… There is an aside in the book that more than sums up the extraordinary journey of Cynthia O’Neal’s life. She is in New Mexico, having dinner with her son, Fitz, who is trying to figure out his own path in life and decides that his ability to size people up might lead him to a job placing children with adoptive families. He’d know, he says, if someone would make a good parent or not:

“There it was - the question of what my son thought of me as a parent - there it was lying right on the table … I took a very deep breath and said, ‘What about me, would you have given me a child?’ Fitz looked me right in the eye and replied, ‘I wouldn’t have then. I would now.’ “— San Francisco Chronicle on Cynthia O’Neal and Talk Softly

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