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Connie Murray Slocum

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About the Author

Connie Murray Slocum as written many articles on martial arts and has also appeared in Women's Sports and Fitness magazine. She contributes to the TSK Times newsletter and is known throughout the East Coast of the USA as Tiger Schulmann's MMA school for her writing. The US Justice Department currently employs her at the Hackensack Courthouse in New Jersey under Surrogate Michael R. Dressler and she attends Bergen Community College.

Connie holds a first degree black belt in two different karate styles. She has been on television shows such as "Good Day New York" with a group of fellow students, and on the "Channel 12 News" with hostess Melinda Murphy to demonstrate close range defense techniques and wood breaking during a rape awareness segment. She was honored to become part of the Oprah Winfrey "I Love You" special in 1996 in tribute to a young man she wrote a letter about. Connie taught karate to children three to five years old as a volunteer, and she says that this part of her life is one of the most rewarding things she has ever done. Self defense is important to her.

Not knowing her biological father, Connie was raised in an abusive relationship between her mother and the man her mother loved. Connie is one of seven siblings. The family lived for ten years under the tyranny fo this man. Sadly, she left home to marry and became a young battered wife. She divorced and remained single until she met the love of her life, David. She and David had three children: a son, James Murray; a daughter who died shortly after birth, Janie-Lynn; and a stillborn son, Jeremy Matthew.

Determined to succeed, Connie forged ahead into the unknown, holding her tiny family together through love and keeping faith in God. She is recently celebrated her twenty-fourth wedding anniversary.

As a woman with strong morals and values, Connie is fun loving and mischevious, with a good sense of humour. Evoking different emotions from people through writing is her fondest dream.