Maggie O'Connell

Maggie O'Connell (she/her) is a resident of Lower Duck Pond. She co-owns the fitness center, Journey Fitness, and teaches aqua aerobics. 
==Biography==
===Early life===
Maggie was born to a loving if flighty mother who died when she was in middle school and a father who died shortly after birth. She was raised by her Gran and Grandpa on the O'Connell land out at the edge of LDP, near the highway out of town. The O'Connells have raised fiber animals since before LDP was incorporated: goats, sheep, llamas, and alpacas (in modern times Maggie has added a hutch of long haired rabbits to experiment with). 
===Adult life===
In high school Maggie was a competitive swimmer. She planned to compete in the Olympics, but although she won several seconds and thirds at nationals she wasn't quite good enough to compete on an international level. After struggling with her disappointment, she decided to stay in LDP after college due to the unexpected arrival of Allie and Will who were adopted as infants. The twins are her estranged older half-sister's biological children, adopted because her sister is serving a life sentence in prison for a deeply scandalous crime people don't like to talk about. Siobhan was as mean as Maggie is sweet, and at this point almost no one even remembers the twins are adopted since they look just like Maggie.)
Maggie lives with her Gran (Siofra O'Connell), her twins (Allie and Will, 5 going on 6), and three foster-to-adopt children (Sadie 14, Kael 4, Brynlee 2). 
==Personality==
Maggie is a friendly, easy-going person with a deep love of family and an artist's soul.
==Appearance==
Maggie is tall and leanly muscled, with swimmer's shoulders. Like all the O'Connell's she has red hair and pale skin that leans towards freckling. She generally dresses for comfort in jeans, a tank or t-shirt, and a flannel button-up with either sneakers or boots depending on whether she's working on the ranch that day. 
==Hobbies==
Maggie loves to swim, Irish dance, and do fiber crafts using material raised by her family. She's also been trying to establish a water dancing club in LDP with limited success. 
==Trivia==
Though she's not super political, Maggie gets very heated about the highway expansion project since the highway runs close to her land (one property away). 
Maggie's full legal name is Mairead Siofra O'Connell. Maggie is a nickname for Mairead, which is the Irish form of Margaret. 
There are 4 dogs, 6 cats, a hutch of rabbits, and herds of livestock on the O'Connell property. The alpacas are a relatively recent addition (her grandfather's wild gambit to introduce exotic textiles). 
==References==
TBA
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