Article: AUTHOR HOPES BOOK HELPS KIDS COPE WITH SEPT. 11; FAYETTEVILLE NATIVE WANTS TO BENEFIT CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY IN NEW YORK CITY.(CNY)

Byline: Laura T. Ryan Staff writer

Yvonne Conte reacted to the World Trade Center attacks as most of us did. She sat immobile in front of her TV set for days.

Despite her job as a motivational speaker, she couldn't seem to snap out of the trance and spring back to life.

"I was really frozen," Conte says. "I'm a motivational speaker; I know how to get out of the dumps. But I couldn't."

And Conte is an adult capable of reason, logic and deliberation. She couldn't even imagine how confused and rudderless young children must have felt.

So she wrote and published a book to help them understand that "we can still have birthday ...

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