Goodreads asked Laura A. Lord:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Laura A. Lord When my husband and I were preparing to move my uncle into a nursing home, we sat around with piles of his clothing and wrote his name in black Sharpie on all the tags. It struck me that one day my children would probably be doing the same thing for me. They'd be sitting around, scrawling my name into my underwear. I suddenly wanted to picture myself older. I wanted to talk about where I came from and all the different kinds of people in my area. I wanted to talk about hometowns and growing up, and aging. I wanted to imagine myself at the other end of the spectrum.

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