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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Reveal
Structure
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Always
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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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