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Creating Art From Experience with Mary Laura Philpott

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How to Research Epilepsy in Nonfiction?

I wanted to get all the scientific details about epilepsy, not that there's a lot of scientific detail in this book. I didn't want to be the person who used the wrong term for something and made something that's already confusing to people even more confusing. And as a way of illustrating that, I reflect on something that happened when I was little, which was that in 1982, the height of the stranger danger craze in the 1980s.

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