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Nancy again.

And the serious importance of jokes

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laura thompson
Dec 12, 2023
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This wasn’t meant to be about Nancy again… but, what the hell. The Lady Writer, as her sister Deborah called her, deserves it.

I was thinking about her, specifically, after reading a brilliant writer friend on Instagram, who posted (beautifully) about the transformation that the right partner had effected in her personality - from angst-ridden to merrime…

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