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GS: Do you write?

LP: I do write. I'm in a writer's group of six young people. One is a producer. My brother's in it. He's a screenwriter. Couple of other actresses also. We have an eclectic group. We get together and pick out a topic and we go away and we write a poem or a short story or a monologue or a scene about a certain topic and we come back next week and read them. It's really interesting to see all the different people's takes.

"I'd like to eventually one day write my own stuff and be in control of that side of the business."

GS: What do you write about?

LP: I've written a lot of poetry. I think it's because it's the easiest, most free flowing genre for me. I'm just starting to get into a little bit of screenwriting like my brother does because I'd like to eventually one day write my own stuff and be in control of that side of the business.

GS: Has your brother had any success with screenwriting?

LP: He's just graduating this May from Loyola Marymont. His professors have gone hogwild over the type of writing he does. He's very talented.

GS: What type of stuff?

LP: A broad sprectyrum. One story is a beautiful love story. He's writing the story of my mom and dad's relationship.

GS: Is there something exceptional about it?

LP: My mom was orphaned. She had a baby brother. I guess the custom is when a woman remarries she leaves the children from a previous marriage. My grandfather died in the war. So I guess my grandmother left my mom and her brother with my uncle. And she was abused. So she knew she had to get out.

GS: In what sense?

LP: She's not very clear about it. She took off with her brother on her back. She was five years old. She walked across the country for about a year.

GS: What town did she leave from?

LP: Don't know where she left from but she ended up in Seoul. There's an organization called World Vision that organized a choir of Korean orphans to tour the world and thank them for their aid in the war. She was accepted as one of these orphans to sing in the choir. The director of the choir absolutely fell in love with my mother and eventually adopted her when she was 13. They had a son and she ended up marrying the son.

GS: That was her brother in a way.

LP: By adoption.

GS: That's quite a story.

LP: The story is much longer. I gave you the abridged version.

GS: What was your next step after the Vivitar commercial?

LP: I think I did a whole lot of print work because I was so little. I might have gotten my first commercial when I was four and a half. It was a toy called Wanda. From then on I did probably a string of 40, 50 commercials through my chilhood, from age four to about 13. Toys-R-Us was a big campaign. I did cookies, crackers. McDonald's I did about three commercials for.

GS: Any other type of work during those years?

LP: Between commercials I did an episode of Finders of Lost Love and that was a big part. I was the lead role. Then I landed the role in the first soap [All My Children] and moved to New York at age 14. My mom moved with me and she'd stay for three months, she'd come back and my grandparents would come and stay for three months, and they'd trade off. PAGE 5

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