The Last Essay of the Book

"I was just like, oh, I'm so tired of reading my own words," she says. "It took me like three times longer than normal to read it." She wept as she read an essay about a childhood experience that had taken decades for her to find its meaning. 'Sometimes you're not going to know' what someone else is thinking or saying in your work.

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