Guin: i'm not sure that what i wanted to grow up to be was mother goose after one too many vodkas, but oh well.
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Nan: a lot of your male characters have in common [...] this aura of being able to say "look, kid..." and make it more or less stick
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Guin: (why do I have multiple characters who find the idea of their being loved literally nonsensical) Nicky: she asked herself without a trace of irony