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My nurse friend is from Louisville, KY by the way. Born here in FL but moved to KY when a little girl. I have run into many people from KY here in the Villages. I am a cheesehead who moved to Reno, Nevada until 1982 when I travelled to attend law school at Brigham Young U. Dropped out of law school after ten days and came back to Reno. Took some public speaking, business and other classes and went to the U of Denver to get a MA in Librarianship and Information Management in May of 1984. Worked for a big publishing company near Palo Alto, CA-- Ziff Davis-- abstracting local business magazines as well as indexing for Information Access Company (IAC)'s various library products. IAC was a subsidiary of Ziff-Davis. Returned to a different law school -- the U of MN-- in the late Summer of 1986. Graduated in May of 1989 while working for the U of MN Law Library. Started my effort to get practical materials into libraries for survivors/victims of crimes in January of 1991 but met very stiff resistance from law librarians and some attorneys but tried to recruit people in hundreds of professions in each US state to help with this movement. Did try to get back into the law librarianship profession but found I had burned all those bridges by speaking up based on my personal experiences with a murder on 2-24-1976 in Reno, Nevada of my then Earl Wooster HS English teacher Mrs. Barbara Mitchell's daughter Michelle. Her daughter Michelle Mitchell had been murdered on my BD of 2-24 in 1976. I had started looking for practical materials in libraries in Reno, Nevada to help my fellow Wooster HS students cope with this murder investigation. It was not "solved" until 1979. I had been earning eventually two BAs-- Philosophy and History-- from the University of Nevada, Reno while looking in any library I encountered for practical materials for survivors/victims of crimes.

Nurses have played a role in my work as they sometimes come into contact with people needing this kind of information. Victims of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, etc. who come into the hospital especially those who have not reported these crimes yet. I have contacted nursing organizations about my efforts since 1992. Have also tried to get public health schools involved in this.