First Draft - Casey Parks
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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What Is the Story of a Woman Who Lived as a Man?
The book largely takes place in delhi, which is a little tiny town near the mississippi river that both my grandmother and mother grew up in. When i was 18 years old, my grandma told me that she had grown up across the street from this person, and she described him as a woman who lived as a mann. I don't think i had ever even met any one who was gay. And so i was shocked that not only did somethine like that exist, but they existed in this little, tiny town that i thought of as just like the place where you get vanilla coxe.
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