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...or old age, for that matter.

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It’s an awesome responsibility, being a writer.

For some reason, people think “writer” is the same thing as “best-selling writer”—so we not only have to pretend to enjoy the opulent lifestyle of the latter, we must (when absolutely necessary) explain the difference. “When absolutely necessary” being those times when the writer needs to be bailed out, bo…

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