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I wrote my first book when I was seven or eight. It was a children’s book entitled Tabby Tallulah, so named because it was written in a notebook with a cat in a dress on the cover. I continue to call my first little effort a book because it was full length, and I suppose I intended to sell it and make a lot of money. Back then, every empty notebook was …

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