Tall - Stancill, Nancy
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Nancy Stancill shot up to six feet as a shy young teenager and was alternately bullied and ignored because of her height. This wasn't uncommon for girls growing up in the 1960s, when men considered tall women undesirable. She details how one woman had bone cut from her thighs to lose a couple of inches of height and others took hormones as preteens to stunt their growth. Stancill's life began changing at the University of North Carolina and she came into her own as an investigative reporter in Houston and Charlotte, NC. After a failed engagement and another serious boyfriend, she meets the man…mehr

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Nancy Stancill shot up to six feet as a shy young teenager and was alternately bullied and ignored because of her height. This wasn't uncommon for girls growing up in the 1960s, when men considered tall women undesirable. She details how one woman had bone cut from her thighs to lose a couple of inches of height and others took hormones as preteens to stunt their growth. Stancill's life began changing at the University of North Carolina and she came into her own as an investigative reporter in Houston and Charlotte, NC. After a failed engagement and another serious boyfriend, she meets the man of her dreams, who is two inches shorter. She marries him anyway.
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Nancy Stancill spent more than thirty-eight years as a newspaper reporter and editor before she began writing fiction full-time. An award-winning investigative reporter, writing in Texas, North Carolina, Virginia and California, she earned a journalism degree and a master's in creative writing.She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, Len Norman, but part of her heart belongs in Pennsylvania with her son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter.Deadly Secrets is her fourth book and third in the Annie Price, investigative reporter, series. Her memoir, Tall, was her third book. When not writing, she can be found reaching items on top shelves, reading mysteries, taking long walks, and playing with her black cat, Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg.