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How Would the Book Change if It Was Written From Connie's Point of View Instead of Douglas's
David Nichols: How would the book change if it was told from Connie's point of view instead of Douglas's? "I think probably if you were with Connie expressing this frustration, longing for a different life ... I think you would feel sympathetic to whoever's telling the story," he says. The idea of a parent as a kind of constrictive, conservative force led him to write after Sweet Sorrow.
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