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JOAN DIDION

describe her: the Coca-Colas and the cigarettes each morning, the leotard and the typewriter, the scotch and the shawl. California. Writing for movies to make a living, “making notes for the director,” her short, tight also means the absence of strong feeling, and she was the opposite of that.

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