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With her bubbly laugh and serene blue eyes, it's hard to imagine that anything terrible ever happened to Katherine Tarbox. "I wouldn't trade my life for anything," says the round-faced 18-year-old as she sweeps her wispy blond hair off her cheek and snuggles into the dark green living-room sofa in her home in New Canaan, Conn. Yet this is the same girl who, at the age of 14, found herself alone in a Texas hotel room with a 41-year-old pedophile she first met in an AOL chat room about six months earlier...
...memoir, Katie.com (Dutton; 196 pages; $19.95), Tarbox explains in simple but revealing prose how she had come to see the man who claimed to be just 23 and called himself Mark (his real name turned out to be Frank Kufrovich) as her best friend and soul mate. "He cared about me," she writes. "He listened to my feelings... And he always supported me with encouragement and advice." In contrast, "home was a place where I always felt alone." Alienated from her workaholic mother, she had only one other friend and hated her grueling workouts on a nationally ranked swim team...
...great class, and he's a wonderful instructor," said one of his students, Brian J. Tarbox of Littleton, Mass. "When he answers questions he doesn't just answer them, but he also makes the person who asked it feel really good about themselves-he really makes you want to come to class...
...Tarbox said he was not surprised to learn Groat is a musician...
Neither long skirts nor tight corsets kept Jessie Tarbox Beals from a distinguished career as the world's first woman photojournalist, according to a photographer who presented Beals' work in a slide show at the Kronkite Center last night...