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You can never quite tell where they'll take you.
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Mine took me here.
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Looking back, the city and I never much liked each other.
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An unmarried woman, after all,
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was expected to behave in very particular ways.
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Which did not include traipsing from publisher to publisher
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with a gaggle of friends.
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Now, listen to me, you must not be afraid.
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And don't talk too much.
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Friends who, sadly, others were not so keen to meet.
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I've been selling my drawings
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for greeting cards, place cards, etcetera for seven years.