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I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.

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Matthea Harvey
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 3
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