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There's something delicious about
writing the first words of a story.
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You can never quite tell
where they'll take you.
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Mine took me here.
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Looking back, the city and I
never much liked each other.
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An unmarried woman, after all,
was expected to behave in
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very particular ways.
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Which did not include traipsing
from publisher to publisher
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with a gaggle of friends.
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Now, listen to me,
you must not be afraid.
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And don't talk too much.
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Friends who, sadly, others were
not so keen to meet.
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I've been selling my drawings
for greeting cards, place cards,
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etcetera for seven years.
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Bunnies in jackets
with brass buttons.
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How ever do you imagine
such things?
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I don't imagine them.
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They're quite real.
They're my friends.
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Are you based the animal
characters on your friends?
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No, the animals are my friends.
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Before Peter Rabbit there was
Benjamin Bunny,
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and then Sir Isaac the Newt.
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I have their drawings as well,
if you'd like to see them.
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That won't be necessary.
Unfortunately, Miss Potter.
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It is 'Miss' Potter, is it not?
Yes. Of course. Silly of me.
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Unfortunately, the market for
children's books...
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