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My mother was an anthropologist. Dr. Susan Stringer. That’s my real last name. Stemple is made up. That’s why no one knows who I really am.
My mother was a professor. Very smart. Funny, sweet, a great mom.
It was just the two of us. My biological father wasn’t in the picture. The two of them met at a conference and had a one-night stand, and that was me.
We’d lived a few different places, wherever she was teaching. Missoula, Montana for a while when I really little, then University of Idaho later, and when she had a little trouble there we moved to Utah.
She got a job at SUU. Southern Utah University in Cedar City. Close to Cedar Breaks National Park.
There were a lot of beautiful places around there. We’d drive all over. Go camping and hiking. We loved Zion and Bryce and all the c
