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All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader time to think about what they have read. I struggle to slow down.

Susan Cheever

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Susan Cheever
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 31
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