“Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.”
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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