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The summer my boyfriend died, my best friend Anna Codrea-Rado bought me an empty notebook and wrote on the front page: ‘Never underestimate the power of the pen.’ I wrote those words back to her on the front of the DJ booth at her twenty-first birthday party at a working man’s club in Durham. 

Although it’d take me over ten years before I wrote anything,…

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