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The Hardest Thing About Adolescence Is That Everything Seems Too Big. There's No Way To Get Context Or Perspective, ..... Pain And Joy Without Limits. No One Can Live Like That Forever, So Experience Finally Comes To Our Rescue. We Come To Know What We Can Endure, And Also That Nothing Endures.

I Began Wanting To Create A Detective Who Really Turned The Tables On That Image Of Women, To Know That You Could Have A Sex Life And Not Be A Bad Person. You Could Have A Sex Life And Still Solve Your Own Problems. It Was Eight Years From When I Started Having The Fantasy That I Was Going To Create Such A Detective To When I Actually Sat Down And Came Up With V. I. Warshawski. It Was A Long, Slow Journey To Come To A Writing Voice And Do That Character.

She Knew The Intensity Of Adolescence, And Knew No Cure For It Except Growing Up. And Then One Has Age And Experience, And Mourns The Loss Of Intensity. Maybe It's Why Musicians And Mathmaticians Are Said To Peak Young-poetry Needs The Fire Of An Unbounded Universe.

I Have One Vivid Memory Of One Of The Days That The Marches Were Taking Place. We Were In A Catholic, Predominantly Polish And Lithuanian Neighborhood. Chicago Is A Place Where People Define Themselves By Their Parish And By Their Ethnicity.

People Have Less Privacy And Are Crammed Together In Cities, But In The Wide Open Spaces They Secretly Keep Tabs On Each Other A Lot More