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      <image:caption>I have wanted to be an author since at least grade five. I know this because we had an assignment where we had to draw ourselves as our future job; I didn’t know how to draw a writer, so I simply drew myself surrounded by nature (because of course I’d live on a farm in the mountains and support myself off of my writing).</image:caption>
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