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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Years
Electric
Grandmother
Liked
Inlet
Type
Adele
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Typewriter
Three
Typewriters
Remember
Visiting
Writing
Florida

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