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In Her Eyes

January 26th, 2010

This weekend I was at a get together, and was chatting with someone about being a playwright. Once that conversation was done, someone else asked, “So you’re a playwright?” I turned to acknowledge the eavesdropper, and his two young daughters. The older one was said to have wanted to be a writer, though she is currently interested in being a scientist. I said to her:

Well, if you do become a writer one day, you get to be a scientist — or anything else you’ve ever wanted to be because you end up doing research for your characters… I wrote about an astronomy professor and went to the planetarium to learn about the stars. I wrote about a magician and taught myself magic tricks to write in the script. I’ve always been curious about those things and got to learn about them as a writer.

She looked up at me, amazed, and smiled a huge smile — the smile of possibility. I think I might have inspired one of the next generation…

–Sue

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