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by Rita Ackermann

I wrote the skeleton of the story in an urgent outpour. It took probably four months to write a crude draft. It took another eight to flesh it out. I knew everything that would happen in the story right from the beginning. It was my story, after all—not literally, but thematically. It was about a girl trying to figure things out. And th…

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