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I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.

Jim Shepard

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Jim Shepard
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 29
Author
Writer
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Imagination
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Stuff
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Meld
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Empathetic
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Experienced
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Fiction

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