Rose Cudaback was born on January 6, 1942, in Southern California. Her family had no television until she was nearly a teenager. Reading aloud was the family's main source of enter...view moreRose Cudaback was born on January 6, 1942, in Southern California. Her family had no television until she was nearly a teenager. Reading aloud was the family's main source of entertainment in the evening before bed. It was cozy, sitting by the fireplace in their bathrobes, while Mamma read aloud. There was usually a chapter book going, mostly about pioneer families involved in the Westward Movement, where they put everything they had in a covered wagon and headed out to homestead land in the new territories. After that, Mamma would read a "fairy story", sometimes taken from the Arabian Nights. Daddy provided all of the scary sound effects. Although these stories had an important influence on her thought life, she will always maintain that her basic core values came from the Bible, which is the most important book in her life.view less