When she was four, I was in the same courtroom prosecuting John and Joe Gambino. Now my biggest kid, my oldest daughter is in the same room. And so I had to make the protagonist a woman. Then it flew out of me because then I was thinking not about me. I was thinking about this woman I love and making an amalgamation of all four of my daughters. It became a labor of love in ways I didn't expect.
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