“When you’re young and have a boyfriend or girlfriend, many kids are naïve and believe that they will be in love forever and that’s how they want it to be.”
Thursday, October 11, 2007
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I’m from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hence the Ben Franklin connection (e.g. Poor Richard’s Almanac). Even if it’s no longer technically true, I, along with many other women, perhaps, perpetually feel like someone’s daughter. And my dad’s name really was Richard.
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- Someone once referred to me(affectionately, I think) as a real "Northeast" kind of woman. I suppose that's true. My favorite thing to write is creative nonfiction.
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