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Tag: family

Don’t Kill Parents!

01/15/201702/13/2023 Lora D

Why do writers love to kill parents? I keep reading books where the heroes have no parents—they died in a car crash or plane crash (a shipwreck or war in historical books). Or they’ve been orphans since birth. The “I have no parents—I’m all alone in the world” scenario is not only unconvincing, it seems… Continue reading Don’t Kill Parents!

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