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Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Wells
Well
Stake
Something
Chips
Stakes
Characters
Fall
Character
May

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