Early Life
O'Neil grew up near Washington, DC on a modest family farm near Sandy Spring producing Christmas trees, eggs, honey and organic vegetables. O'Neil and family still keep bees. O'Neil's mother taught art and art history at Sandy Spring Friends School and during WWII worked in photo reconnaissance with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. A maternal aunt married Bolesaw Michal Gladych who is O'Neil's Godfather. O'Neil's father, an architect, constructed topographic feature models used in Royal Air Force briefings in England. O'Neil's grandfather, Harold R. Peat was an author and lecturer and her grandmother, Louisa Watson Small Peat was an editor and author.
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