Meeting A Writing Hero

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In May of this year, I got to meet one of my writing idols, Laurie Halse Anderson. I discovered her books years ago, when my son, who we'll call The Possum, was only about four. We had spent so much time in bookstores over the years that The Possum had become an excellent book browser by age four. He could out do me. So, while he browsed books in at a local children's bookstore, I wandered bored. I assumed there was nothing for me to do.

I struck up a conversation with a bookseller, Li