2008 alone, with Twilight being the best selling book of the year. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Stephen and Candy Morgan. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, with five siblings: Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, and Heidi. She attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she received a B.A. in English in 1995. Meyer, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, met her husband Christian, nicknamed "Pancho", when she was growing up in Arizona, and married him in 1994. Together they have three sons: Gabe, Seth, and Eli. Stephenie Meyer never set out to be a writer, having always been more interested in reading books than writing them. As a child, her favourite books included Gone With the Wind, Little Women, and Terry Brooks' The Sword of Shannara. After graduating from college, Stephenie worked as an office assistant until she gave up work to look after her children, and was considering going
pants pocket. In other words, a sidekick is someone you keep as close to you as your side pocket. Every T V Western hero had to have his Ally, from the Lone Ranger s "faithful Indian companion" Tonto to W i l d Bill Hickock's "comical sidekick" Jingles, played by character actor A n d y Devine, who also filled the Ally's role in many Western movies going back to Stagecoach. T h e Cisco Kid had his comic foil Pancho, Zorro had his silent but very useful accomplice Bernardo. Walter Brennan played a gallery of sidekicks, notably supporting John Wayne in Red River. There he goes beyond the usual roles of Ally as provider of comic relief and someone for the hero to talk to. H e also serves as a conscience, muttering every time John Wayne's character makes a moral error and rejoicing when Wayne's surrogate son finally stands up to him.
I touched his face. "Look," I said. "I love you more than everything else in the world combined. Isn't that enough?" "Yes, it is enough," he answered, smiling. "Enough for forever." And he leaned down to press his cold lips once more to my throat. Acknowledgments A huge thank you to: my parents, Steve and Candy, for a lifetime of love and support,S for reading great books to me when I was young, and for still holding my hand through the things that make me nervous; my husband, Pancho, and my sons, Gabe, Seth, and Eli, for sharing me so often with my imaginary friends; my friends at Writers House, Genevieve Gagne-Hawes, for giving me that first chance, and my agent Jodi Reamer, for turning the most unlikely dreams into realities; my editor Megan Tingley, for all her help in making Twilight better than it started out; my brothers, Paul and Jacob, for their expert advice on all my automotive questions; and my online family, the talented staff and writers at fansofrealitytv
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