Ralph and the Lemon Meringue Pie, Illustration by Heather Small
Hi, I’m Sue Mattern.
I always wanted to be defined by my music… and by my writing—something I accomplished artistically. But one spring Sunday in 1986, a new definition was suddenly written about me. I was the mother of a 5-year old girl who was attacked and almost killed by a mountain lion in Orange County.
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