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"   &amp;quot;Reading Little Women when I was a little girl\u2014I was about eight and working my way through the library stacks\u2014made me realize that other people thought about relationships. And that other people also thought it was interesting to observe other people. And that it was possible to be a good person, even if you didn&amp;#039;t always behave yourself, um, very nicely. I love the fact that Jo had such a temper and so often regretted it. There were the moments where she&amp;#039;d go off to write and was unashamed to say, this matters to me, and I don&amp;#039;t care that you all think I&amp;#039;m crazy. There&amp;#039;s a moment, I think, where she puts on a hat and she says, &amp;#039;Genius burns.&amp;#039; I was impressed by her willingness to declare that it mattered to her.&amp;quot; Amy Bloom&amp;#039;s latest, Where the God of Love Hangs Out, a collection of short stories, is out now. Photo: Courtesy of Penguin Classics; cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, to be released in September 2010 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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