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Cindy Saxl is extraordinarily proud of her older sister, writer Sally Pla.

“When she first landed an agent we were like ‘wow!’ And it’s only been more incredible since then; every step of this journey for her has been inspiring, “ says Saxl, the Millburn-Short Hill resident.

The sisters are close, in spite of living on opposite coasts. “She’ll call me up and say, ‘ Okay future me, what do I do about this,” Pla laughs. They share not only the close bond that sisterhood brings, but also the special bond of both raising boys on the autism spectrum.

Pla, a former business journalist credits a family move, and a succession of very serious illnesses as the wake up call she needed to write her first book, “The Someday Birds”. However, she says

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