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Ms. Franz was born Sally Martha Blue in Philadelphia. Pa. in 1951 and raised in Ho-ho-kus, New Jersey. She graduated from Ridgewood High School, attended Springfield College in Massachusetts and later (twelve years) graduated from Empire State College a division of the State University of New York. Her degree is in Human Resources. She has three sisters and a twin brother. She has two daughters and three step-children, two sons-in-law, a daughter-in-law and a grand daughter. She took and kept the name Sally Diane Franz when she was adopted by her step-father in the mid-fifties. She lives with her second husband, Kim, in Santa Barbara, California.

As a child, Ms. Franz studied art, wrote poetry and at the age of twelve dedicated her life to God. (Or as she would say- "God found me as a child and never let go no matter how hard I tried to shake free!") At the age of fifteen she was one of forty young people across America who was invited to the White House to help launch President and Mrs. Johnson's Beautify America Campaign--the forerunner to Earth Day. When she was sixteen she spent her summer in Tama, Iowa working on a Mesquakie settlement helping the Native American tribe to improve their lands. She wrote her high school senior paper on the Bureaucracy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In college she had a 4.0 grade point.

Sally got married when she was twenty and had both her children by the time she was twenty-four. As a stay at home mom she wrote a short piece for Reader's Digest. It was printed in their Campus Comedy section. But with raising children and working it was thirty more years before she tried her hand again at writing creatively. She did write a series of stories for her children (Rose Mint and Rose Petal) and together they wrote music and made up plays. "Staying home with my children was the most fun and most creative thing I have ever done," said Ms. Franz.

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