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Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

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Jennifer Crusie
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Wapakoneta
Ohio
Pressures
Defending
Pressure
Outside
Writer
Vision
Part
Caving

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