![]() ![]() I thought, ‘Oh my God, no one in Cincinnati is going to talk to me again.’” Cronin, who now practices clinical psychology in Los Angeles, says her book is selling best in her hometown. Readers - especially in Cincinnati - seem to agree. That is just one of many revealing moments in Cronin’s candid debut book, “Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience.” The 1982 University of Cincinnati graduate’s work made it onto Oprah’s list of “Memoirs Too Powerful to Put Down.” Without them, I became an elusive mermaid, the Venus de Milo spit from the ruins or a comet firing across an endless sky.” “In a pool, I moved without a single compromise because I was liberated from my legs. But skinny-dipping after dark with her girlfriends, she became something else entirely. Growing up in Cincinnati as one of 11 children, Eileen Cronin was known as the girl who was born without legs. ![]()
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