Most, if not all, of the conversations are from your imagination, right? Yes, for a couple of
reasons. One is because those
conversations do not exist in recorded form. A couple of them
are written down, but we didn’t
transcribe or record everything
like we do today. Another reason is because this is my dramatic retelling of these events.
the public’s memory the way
Tina Fey’s portrayal of Sarah
Palin did? I do. I actually wonder…. I’ve thought about it and
I’ve researched and researched
and tried to figure out what
these people would be feeling
going into the scenes. And I
wonder if I actually, just through
happenstance, wrote something
that was actually said just because I was in their minds. Part
Ever wonder if there might be of me would be very happy if a
a line or two that winds up in
few lines coincided with what
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