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Like her protagonist Shannon Kendricks, Cathy Parker is an attorney. She volunteered as a zoo keeper's aide for eight years and did have a very special beluga buddy, Mauyak, just as Shannon Kendricks has. As to encounters with alien children, as in the trilogy, she is not saying. She was also a radio and print journalist and once was the 'Jill of all trades' for a small satellite paper in Wyoming. She did everything from taking to the photos to writing the articles and op-ed pieces to helping with layout and hauling the newspapers through blizzards once a week. As a result, she saw lambs being born and went on a cattle drive and ate her first (and last) Rocky Mountain Oyster. She has seen mountain gorillas in the wild in Rwanda and orangutans in Borneo and even rocked an orphaned baby orangutan to sleep on her chest. She has volunteered with a chimpanzee sanctuary for former research subjects. So you can see where her heart lies. Currently she lives in Costa Rica with her black cat. All similarities between her cat and the trilogy's Narcissus are purely and probably coincidental.

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Face to Face with a Humpback Whale

In this excerpt, Shannon and her crew are out in a longboat with a pair of Right Whales to protect them from an alien attacker. My own closest encounters with whales were, as I have mentioned, with the beluga I got to hand around. I did have also have a wonderful experience with a humpback mom and her calf up in the seas of Southeast Alaska. We were sailing in a 35' boat when a huge gathering of whales came our way. We cut our engine and stayed quiet, watching whales breach and eye hop and tail slap. Then along came a young calf, curious to have a look at our boat. Right behind him came his momma to see that no harm came to him. I was up in the bow all excited watching them take passes by us as my companion sweated--the mom was longer than our sailboat by far! Suddenly she spy hopped right in front of me, just a few feet away, her huge head coming up even with my own and her dish-sized eye looking straight into my eyes. It is very difficult to describe that moment except to say I felt a connection, one that I will never forget.

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They motored at high speed until Shannon called out for the pilot to cut the motor. A right whale surfaced next to the longboat before the motor had died down. He was perhaps twice the length of the boat. His broad, dark back rolled forward out of the water, splashing them, as he released his blowholes with a “poosh” and the air above the two adjoining holes clouded the air in v-shaped mist. Shannon’s heart lifted; to sit so close to that much gentle beauty, and majestic size and power overwhelmed her.

“Oh my god,” the pilot said. “He was so close I could have touched him. A right whale! I can’t believe it.”

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Cathy Parker

Power Stabilized

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