Emma Gilliland
Emma Gilliland asked April Henry:

What inspired The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die?

April Henry A bunch of things. One was a song by Kathleen Edwards called Scared at Night, although it would be kind of hard to explain how. I also used to work in health care and I found it fascinating that if you were exposed to smallpox (in the wake of 9/11 people were worried about smallpox attacks), just as long as you got vaccinated before the symptoms broke out, you would be okay.

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