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I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

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Alex Flinn
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 23
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Alexandra Flinn
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Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.
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The magic is over, but its effects will live forever.
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True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.
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This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.
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