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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Youma, Is Humour a Part of the Book?

humor is a quality that i think comes from my childod which was not always easy. I'm very well aware that my writing tends to be on the tense side of things, and i think i use, youma, in the same way,. To sort of make bearable what would otherwise be hard to bear am or to process. Because it's not just heavy, is not just pain. There's also something to be said about the capacity of the human spirit, too, to endure.

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