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- Interview with Linnie Greene, The Creative Independent, 16 October 2019; 23 words. Complete sentence from her first answer about childhood curiosity. Full first answer and following discussion of library research read. Her argument favors preserving exploratory attention; it is not advice to avoid c
- Interview with Linnie Greene, The Creative Independent, 16 October 2019
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