Sam was born in November of 1994 to Sam and Kerry Scinta in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

He grew up in O'Fallon with his younger brother Tony and, despite his family suggesting he should explore a future career in writing, decided to pursue a degree in music education from the University of Kansas instead.

Flash forward a little more than a decade, and Sam is now the Managing Editor of the Wharton County Leader-Journal newspaper outside of Houston, a career that includes a fateful stop at a small-town newspaper in Ohio, just outside of Toledo.

Sam will be missing his grandmother Cathy Cayley, who passed in 2001, his grandfather Sam Scinta, who passed in 2020 and his grandmother Joan Scinta, who passed in 2023. He knows both his Grandma Cayley and Grandpa Scinta would have absolutely adored Abi - his Grandma Scinta sure did.

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