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But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Alone
Maybe
Everyone
Thing
Life

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I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.
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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
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The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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