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1.16sMortimer Smith, Jr.,
1.52sNew York Times bestselling author,
1.93syour book is about innocence, the definition of it,
1.93sand, inevitably, its impossibility.
1.76sIs it autobiographical?
1.19sCertainly.
2.83sI mean, all writing is, in my opinion.
2.9sBut my, uh --
5.2sMy father kept me locked in the house until I was a teenager.
4.86sAnd there was violence and, uh, threats of poison gas --
1.63sbut also dancing.
3.47sBut you persevered and created this masterpiece from your suffering.