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Published on: 1/1/2005
Last Visited: 12/11/2007
By Ben Beagle, Daily News Lifestyle Editor
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After three days of signing books, posters and newspaper special sections, talking about writing, and having lunch with winners of a book review contest, she returned to her rural Maine farmhouse.
This week she's back to being a mom, a role that included -- before it broke down Thursday -- driving the family's decrepit old station wagon to the bottle store to unload a trunk filled with recyclables.
But for three days, during the "A Tale for Three Counties" community reading project, she felt like a celebrity.
Everywhere she went in Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming counties she found people eager to meet a famous author.
"They've made me feel like 'Julia Spencer-Fleming International Superstar Celebrity,' " she said.