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I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't feel like that while I'm writing. But I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

Sloane Crosley

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Sloane Crosley
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 3
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