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Meet Regina Calcaterra, Author of Etched in Sand

Etched in Sand, a New York Times best seller is the very local story of attorney, author and advocate, Regina Calcaterra, one of five siblings, all with different fathers and a mentally ill abusive mother.  Regina recounts her plight to keep her siblings together and our of foster care, stealing food and sleeping in cars to survive.  All of these events took place in Ronkonkoma, St. James, Centereach and Lindenhurst.  Today, Regina is a successful attorney with the State of New York, who has served at the state and local level at Executive Director of the Moreland Commission on Public Utility Preparedness and Response and Chief Deputy Executive for Suffolk County.  Her inspiring story conveys a message of tenacity, loyalty and the courage to endure thrive and break the cycle.

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