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the time the girls are around 30, Herr and her sister left Norma in their hometown and changed their named and address. Under the new name of Mira Bartók, she traveled the world to
Florence, Lapland, and Israel as a way to escape her mother. She painted in Florence, ran writing workshops in Israel, and earned a
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Myra Herr was born in 1959 to mother Norma Herr. By the age of four, her father Paul Herr became divorced from her mother who had also begun showing signs of mental illness. As Herr grew older with her sister Rachel, Norma was diagnosed with schizophrenia and attacked her daughters consistently. By
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In 2007, Bartók and her sister were informed that their mother was dying of cancer and they returned to
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death, Bartók began to write her memoir but had trouble with her memory due to her previous accident. While struggling to write, she read of
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Bartók is married to Doug Plavin and they share a dog.
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