Don Dudding is the 50-something father of Olivia. He is a banjo-playing, agnostic, liberal, over-educated hillbilly with a Ph.D in Composition and Rhetoric. Don has been married to Olivia's mother, Ruth, for more than 20 years and has been teaching high school English in the same small town (Racine, OH) for more than a quarter of a century.
Olivia Dudding is the 20-something daughter of Don (and Ruth). She is a guitar-playing, LDS, moderate, undergraduate individualist who would rather not be confined by labels. Olivia is single, majoring in Journalism (at BYUI) and is currently working at a call-center asking ridiculous questions of strangers during their dinnertimes.
