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The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Without
Red
Long
Deeply
Years
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Longstanding
World
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Entrenched
Went
Recession
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As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
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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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I prefer true over happy now.
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