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“My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.”

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“It was 1965 and life seemed easier. Her parents were alive and so was her brother, her bones were hard and strong and her vision perfect…It was 1965 and she was filled with hope, lush pots of ivy spilling from her window boxes as she leaned out late in the day to see the sunset, to smell the river, to…

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