Karen Malandruccolo has been an avid reader since childhood. She also gets much satisfaction from expressing her thoughts and feelings through the written word. Shortly after Max p...view moreKaren Malandruccolo has been an avid reader since childhood. She also gets much satisfaction from expressing her thoughts and feelings through the written word. Shortly after Max passed, she felt the urgent need to write about him and the special bond they shared. It began as a poem and evolved into this book. She was born in The Bronx, New York, spent a year in Bristol, England as a young woman working as a secretary for the British Aircraft Corporation and currently lives in Queens County, New York with her husband, son Santino and two furbabies, Gino and Ssimo.view less