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Life of My Own
Kate Long
"When
I was a little girl in Oak Hill," Kate
Long told The Hampshire Review, "I scribbled or
read all the time. I'd walk down the street with a piece of paper,
just scribbling on it, or with my nose in a book. I was fascinated
with what could happen when you put words together.
"I
didn't think that I could be a writer, because I'd never heard of
a writer from West Virginia. We didn't have any books by writers
from West Virginia in our county schools then, and I figured that
real writers came from somewhere else. I didn't see books about
the lifestyle and events around me, so I assumed, although nobody
said so, that real writers write about things that happened long
ago or are far away. I was thrilled when I ran into my first writers
from West Virginia. Their stories said, life here is well worth
writing about."
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