Forget Me Not: A Tough and Tender Memoir, by Loraine Seavey Nixon Martin

Editing, design/layout, and production by Alice S. Morrow Rowan

" 'I woke from a dream,' begins this engaging memoir of one woman’s happy and sad life. With help from letters sent, received, and found; journal entries; and not-so-perfect poems, Loraine paints delightfully detailed word portraits of her childhood 'not full of bad people doing bad things' in Concord, Massachusetts; of nursing school in Boston during the Polio epidemic; of working in two New York City Hospitals; of finding love on a boat on a river in New Jersey, followed by a forty-year marriage they were told 'might not last,' much of it spent laboring, laughing, and loving on a farm in rural Pennsylvania, raising pigs, sheep, squash, blueberries, and three Boy Scouts; of surviving short and long good-byes; and of new love sparked at a picnic for 'old people.'

"Loraine Seavey Nixon Martin is mother of three and grandmother of three. She lives and plays on a golf course in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She enjoys writing on her computer and reading on her Kindle. She wrote Forget Me Not with the hope of inspiring readers, especially the younger generations." ~ From back cover of Forget Me Not

"I want to thank my editor, Alice Morrow Rowan. She has helped me fix my first attempt at telling my story and it is now in much better form. The personal connection has been a large improvement over 'self-publishing.'" Loraine Seavey Nixon Martin, Forget Me Not: A Tough and Tender Memoir, Not Forgotten Publications, March 2013, p. 357. Copyright © 2013 by Loraine Seavey Nixon Martin.