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Cynthia Timoti

Cynthia Timoti

Author of multicultural romance novels, including "Salty, Spiced, and a Little Bit Nice" (2025), drawing on personal experience with type 1 diabetes.

Jun 3, 2026

2:31
Cynthia, tell us your inspiration for the book.
2:34
This goes back six years ago now during COVID.
2:37
So during the pandemic, we in Melbourne, we had a lot of lockdowns.
2:41
And during one of those lockdowns, we noticed that my son, my youngest son, who was almost seven at the time, he began to be very thirsty a lot of the times and then he went to the toilet very often he would go at night he would wet the bed and then we were wondering what is wrong because he's almost seven he doesn't wet the bed anymore so we took him to the GP to our doctor to have him checked to have a blood test And when the results came back, we were told that he had type 1 diabetes, which was very shocking because we didn't have a history of type 1 diabetes in the family.
3:21
And then, you know, we started to go through all the tests, all the hospital visits and all that.
3:28
And a lot of people, when we shared the story of him having type 1 diabetes, they were wondering what it is.
3:34
So they were asking questions like, is that because he's He's had a lot of sugar.

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Will you tell our readers what those are and kind of when she's, why is she using that at that point?

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