Author

Valerie Schremp Hahn

Journalist

Valerie Schremp Hahn is a journalist who lives in her hometown of St. Louis. She spent 26 years as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and is now an associate editor for the Catholic Health Association of the United States. Her freelance work has appeared in the Post-Dispatch, theSTL.com and The New York Times.

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