Marietta Miles
The second everyone leaves the house and I am on my own...inspiration hits. Ha.
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Marietta Miles:
Hey, I grew up in a Kitt 8X35 mobile home in trailer camps in Colorado and Northern California and I borrow people liberally from my own past. You seem to capture the "white trash" mentality perfectly in some of your characters, particularly Percy in "Route 12." Are these very true to life characters based in part on people you knew growing up or do you come up with them right off the top of your head?
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