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Had Quotes by Mona Simpson
- Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have…
- I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria,…
- In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon.…
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