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The People With The Most Fear Have The Greatest Opportunity To Be Brave.

Ella's Supersonic Voice Followed Her All The Way To Bleecker Street And Then Dissolved Amid The Noisy Profusion Of Shops, Cafes, And Restaurants And The Crush Of People That Made The West Village Of Manhattan Unique In The World. In A Single Block You Could Buy Fertility Statues From Tanzania, Rare Amazonian Orchids, A Pawned Brass Tuba, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Or The Best, Most Expensive Cup Of Coffee You Ever Tasted. It Was The Doughnuts, Incidentally, That Attracted Gaia.

When I First Heard The Word Existential, I Didn't Know What It Meant. But Then I Found Out That No One Knows What It Means, So Now I Use It All The Time.

When I First Thought Of The Idea For 'sweet Valley High,' I Loved The Idea Of High School As Microcosm Of The Real World. And What I Really Liked Was How It Moved Things On From 'sleeping Beauty'-esque Romance Novels Where The Girl Had To Wait For The Hero. This Would Be Girl-driven, Very Different, I Decided - And Indeed It Is.

I Always Loved Reading. Growing Up, My Favorite Book Was 'a Child's Garden Of Verses,' By Robert Louis Stevenson.