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Your novella “What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf?” opens as a boy is floating on his back in a pond. We gradually come to learn that he’s part of a wealthy extended family gathering for the summer at the family’s estate in New Hampshire. When did this character, Chip, first come to you?
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My parents live on an old farm in New Hampshire, all apple trees and ponds and turkeys in the fields, though it’s a far humbler version of the estate in the story. A few years ago, my family renovated my parents’ little barn into a house so that we can stay for the summer to escape Florida’s heat. We spend a lot of the day floating in the pond, which is so brown with tannins and rich with newts that it’s a little disconcerting; I always feel afraid I’m going to hurt a newt or two when I dive in. The pond is spring-fed, so always cold, but sometimes the July sun will heat the pond to bathwater-warm for the top foot, and, if you float lon
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