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I take the rawest, realest moments in anyone__ life and I open them up and lay them bare. The innocence of a five year old child, the awkwardness of a teenager__ first sexual encounter, the heartbreak of longing for a relationship you can__ have, confronting the possibility of the death of your newborn child, whatever it is, you open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day. You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can__ play it safe. Great writing isn__ safe.
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I take the rawest, realest moments in anyone__ life and I open them up and lay them bare. The innocence of a five year old child, the awkwardness of a teenager__ first sexual encounter, the heartbreak of longing for a relationship you can__ have, confronting the possibility of the death of your newborn child, whatever it is, you open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day. You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can__ play it safe. Great writing isn__ safe.

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