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Lydia Heberling

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Lydia Heberling is 26, unemployed, and speaks conversational Thai. Although she has a degree in literature and English education, she's really hoping to just teach swim lessons and write all summer. She has been published in the San Diego Natural History Museum's 2009-2010 annual report and the Point Loma Nazarene University Alumni Magazine. She's working on a novel that her friends tells her she needs to finish and publish while she's "still relevant."

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