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I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

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Annie Proulx
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 22
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Journalist
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Norwich
Connecticut
E. Annie Proulx
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Edna Annie Proulx
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