Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. (Alice Munro)

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

Alice Munro

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