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If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, __ou__e out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?_ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.
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If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, __ou__e out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?_ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.

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