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After 20 Years, Stephen Chbosky Has Rekindled His Love for Writing Novels

As a little boy, was afraid of many things. There were the deep western Pennsylvania woods surrounding his home in the township of Upper St. Clair. One could easily get lost in those woods, and the boy was sure it was a place where evil lurked. Little Stephen would warily observe the deer that often came close to his house. “I always thought they were very mysterious and frightening,” he says. Then there was his strict Catholic upbringing. It might not have instilled the fear of God in him,

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