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Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
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