I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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I married young and had children young.
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Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
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