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When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.