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I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

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It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

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With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

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No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty to its industrial zone, but Bushwick is no Williamsburg, even if the real estate agents would have you believe it is.

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For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

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For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.

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Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

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I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.

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Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

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I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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