
First Draft - Casey Parks
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Your Mother Daughter Story
i never wanted to write about myself. I applied for lit ten grants and got rejected for all of them. Eventually, i quit my job at the where you going in, and i went to columbia university to get my masters programme. And they have this really cool class at columbia that's a book writing class. They're like six narratives that are very short. So i wrote another kind of similar one which was just about me leaving it out on his office desk because he liked it so much. The professor called me into his office and said why do you leave it out? Why did you want to be alone with your mother when she died? He asked if i had
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