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A Goodreads user asked Josephine Angelini:

Where does the inspiration for your characters come from? How do you make them so three-dimensional?

Josephine Angelini They are all bits and pieces of me, mostly. That, and I steal from my friends and family. I remember expressions they make and they way they stand and I use it in my books.

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