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Dreams. When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother— certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

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I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

Stories. I made up stories while I bounced a ball against the side of our house.

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I made up stories playing with paper dolls. And I made them up while I practiced the piano, by pretending to give piano lessons. I even kept a notebook with the names of my pretend students and how they were doing. I always had an active imagination.

But I never wrote down any of my stories.

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And I never told anyone about them.

Grown Up. When I grew up, my need for story telling didn't go away. So when my own two children started pre-school I began to write and