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The Harper’s Podcast

CHAPTER

The Sexy Side of Ena

I was really interested in Ena and particularly her mistrust of humanity, especially other adults. Her loss has led her to become an incredibly like pure character, trusting only in the natural world. I had this feeling like my body is out of my control and it is warped. So I think those ideas were present already just in having conceived of Marek. And I sort of fashioned him, skeletonly along the same line as myself as an adolescent.

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