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When your novel might hurt people you know

I wrote this novel about my hometown and now I am afraid to publish it because everyone I grew up with will know exactly who every character is based on

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The writer's obligation to truth collides with the human duty to kindness when fiction threatens to expose private wounds.

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