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Michelle Huneven

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Writers can take offense when someone asks what’s real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that’s not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon’s tail – what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

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I bring so much of myself to each character that there’s always a worrying point when I think: ‘Oh no, I’m really that person.’

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My mother, a nonpracticing Jew from Delaware, had married a non-practicing Protestant in California. Sometimes, certainly not always, Jew + Protestant = Unitarian, and that is what we were – ‘Jewnitarians,’ as I like to say.

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May 14, 2024

My mother, a nonpracticing Jew from Delaware, had married a non-practicing Protestant in California. Sometimes, certainly not always, Jew + Protestant = Unitarian, and that is what we were – ‘Jewnitarians,’ as I like to say.

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May 14, 2024

I bring so much of myself to each character that there’s always a worrying point when I think: ‘Oh no, I’m really that person.’

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