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Where do you get your stories?
My debut novel, which is not yet published, (two literary agents are looking at it—please say a prayer AND cross your fingers), is about things I know everything about, and things I know nothing about except what I’ve read. Take the chapter set in a Korean orphanage. I’ve never lived in an orphanage, nor been