
Matthew Dicks: Crafting a Story ("News of Divorce")
Speak Up Storytelling
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I think the deepest most fundamental part of me is I've been trying to get attention all my life and perhaps that is what I'm doing this very second listeners trying to get the attention of people because I didn't get that attention as a kid. Therefore I saw the divorce the news of it the gossipy nature of it as a way to get attention instead of what it really was a tragedy. "It was going to really in many many ways disrupt and ruin my childhood forever alright so that's the kind of process I begin with"
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