I'm writing to you about something that may come as a shock and will certainly feel like it's fallen out of the clear blue sky.

My name is Danny Shapiro, and I'm a 54-year-old novelist, memoirist, wife, and mother of a 17-year-old son.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Observer.com.

For 14 years now, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do,

how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about, and working on.

On this episode, Danny Shapiro talks about her surprising genetic inheritance.

I had always felt other in the Shapiro family, because I looked so other. Here's Debbie. I'd like to thank two of

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