Zabine grew up in Germany. She left Germany at 17 and settled in Hawaii and lived there for 30 years, running a social agency for 10 of those years. She nows lives in the Seattle area.nbsp; She has created a website conveying the message of the Baha'i Faith calledspan style="text-decoration: underline;" /span href="http://hearttoheartpublications.com/"Heart to Heart.