The Luckiest Girl in the World

by Paul Lonardo, Jamie Coyle, Tedy Bruschi (Introduction)

Overview

Growing up, everyone would always say how lucky I was, but at the time I was not sure what they meant. I was just doing what I always loved; skating and playing ice hockey. Everything seemed to go my way, from winning virtually every raffle I entered to scoring the game-winning goal whenever my team needed it. As I got a little older, I could feel these things before they happened, as if I knew that I was going to catch the corner of the net to get the puck past the goalie as time expired. I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. Becoming an Olympian was something I thought about as far back as I could remember. By the time I was twelve, I was well on my way to living my dream. Then, on August 9, 2008 I suffered a stroke during a hockey game. No one suspected that such a thing could happen to a twelve-year old, but as the reality of pediatric stroke turned my dream into a nightmare, the journey back to skating and playing hockey again showed me just how much I could accomplish with the love and support of my family and people all around me who cared. And I came to realize that I truly was the luckiest girl in the world.
- JAMIE COYLE

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150671706
Publisher:	Paul Lonardo
Publication date:	11/18/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	966 KB

About the Author

Paul Lonardo:
I have co-authored numerous nonfiction books and biographies. My most recent book, "Boy In A Box," tells the inspirational story of a retired Battalion Fire Chief who overcame abandonment by his father at a young age and a catastrophic burn injury as a teenager to fulfill his dream of becoming a firefighter and leader of men.
"I, Father" was an 2014 e-book release which tells the story of a California man caught in the middle of a controversial surrogacy case in which he was named the father of a child that his ex-wife paid a surrogate mother to deliver using anonymously donated egg and sperm cells.
"Life, with Cancer: The Lauren Terrazzano Story" (HCI Books, October 2012) tells the story a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with Newsday who battled lung cancer and wrote about her illness and the stigma of the disease as a non-smoker in a weekly column right up until her death in 2007 at age 39.
I co-authored, "Caught in the Act, a Courageous Family’s Fight to Save Their Daughter from a Serial Killer" (Berkley True Crime, 2011), and a previous true crime title, "Thrill Killers: A True Story of Innocence and Murder Without Conscience" (New Horizon Press, 2007 / Berkley True Crime paperback, 2008).
"From the Ashes - Surviving the Station Nightclub Fire," a book I co-authored with Gina Russo, a survivor of the 2003 nightclub fire in West Warwick, RI, that killed 100 people, has been used as the basis of a 2013 documentary web series and film, THE STATION, which I produced. Visit to learn more.
"Strike IX," a 2009 book, tells the story of the Providence College baseball team and how they played with passion the final year that this sport was played before the program was cut due to Title IX considerations.
I have an A.S. in Mortuary Science and a B.A. in English from the University of Rhode Island.
I studied screenwriting at Columbia College film school in Hollywood, CA