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Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

Nell Freudenberger

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Nell Freudenberger
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Different
Piece
Thing
Research
Something
Pieces
Fiction
Information
Looking
Funny
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Altogether

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