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- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

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Candace Bushnell
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 1
Columnist
Essayist
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Novelist
Writer
Carrie Bradshaw
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