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Former Wacktress (Waiter/Actress), current mom and wife. I blog at The Woman Formerly Known As Beautiful http://shannoncolleary.blogspot.com

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The Date Rape Story I'll Some Day Share with My Daughters

5/7/12 10:22am by shannoncolleary
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Young Woman on Beach

When I awoke that bright spring morning of March 21st, 1986, in a pensione in Venice, Italy, I didn’t expect the day to end on a dark, deserted beach with a boy I'd just met pinning me to the ground hissing in my ear that he had "un coltello" (a knife) and that "ho intenzione di ucciderti" (he'd kill me) if I didn't "f--k" him.  Read more >

Married Sex

6/3/11 11:51am by shannoncolleary
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Sarah and Simon had been married five years and together eight.  They had two children, Octavia and Penelope, ages two and four.  Their angels and their succubus.  Sarah and Simon shared a collective post-partum stress disorder that manifested itself in the certainty that their daughters would be felled by whooping cough, kidnapped by infertile women, attacked by the neighbor’s Rhodesian Ridgeback (which are bred to kill lions and small children) or would just generally be short-lived.    Read more >

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Aging Vaintress, Mom Butler, Wife Dominatrix

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Full Name
Shannon Colleary
Member Since
March 2011
About Me: 

I'm a former '90s Wacktress (waiter/actress), turned wife, mother, L.A. screenwriter and blogger at The Woman Formerly Known as Beautiful.

Profession: 
Writer
Location: 
Los Angeles
Employers: 

Lifetime Television

Warner Brothers 

Disney Channel

Fox Family

The WB

School Tags: 

USC undergrad

UCLA graduate school

About Me Tags: 

mom, wife, writer, chocolate eater, ocean lover, bad volleyball player, blogger, really good friend, book reader, once upon a time scuba diver - 

Causes Tags: 

Women For Women International

Southern Poverty Law

NPR

 

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