14-ghostwriter

                    THE PAGE (as sold, 340,000 copies)               
                                                                     
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           |   ...and that was the night I finally         |         
           |   understood what my father had been          |         
           |   trying to tell me all those years.          |         
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           |                        _         _            |         
           |                      _/ \_     _/ \__         |         
           |                     /     \___/      \__      |         
           |                    |                    \     |         
           |                     \___________________/     |         
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                   the same page, held up to a lamp                  
                                                                     
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           |   ...and that was the night I finally         |         
           |   understood what my father had been          |         
           |   trying to tell me all those years.          |         
           |          ,                                    |         
           |         /|          _         _               |         
           |        / |        _/ \_     _/ \__            |         
           |       |  |       /     \___/      \__         |         
           |       |  |      |          ^         \        |         
           |        \  \      \_________|_________/        |         
           |         \  \_______________|                  |         
           |          '------------------'                 |         
           |                             |                 |         
           |                    a second wrist,            |         
           |                    under the first,           |         
           |                    doing the loops            |         
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   :  She was paid 4% and a confidentiality clause.                 :
   :  He was paid 96% and the memory of his own childhood,          :
   :  which he now recalls in her sentences, and cannot recall      :
   :  in any others, having read hers four hundred times            :
   :  and lived it only once.                                       :
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                                                            wib&wob