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Marissa with that little girl brings tears to your eyes.

Q:

Such joy...happiness.

Cerf:

Ecstasy--adoration. When she crosses a door sill, they're worried that she's going to hurt herself. If she coughs, the two of them go into a frenzy.

Q:

Poor girl though, later on in life.

Cerf:

At first it was peculiar because she was smothered in love, but she turned out to be a great kid. She's a great friend of Brook, the John and Barbara Hershey daughter.

Q:

John Hersey?

Cerf:

John Hersey's kid, Brook, who is a wonderful girl, and little Joanna Warren.

I want to finish the Warren story. The daughter wrote something for her own amusement that I fell in love with and published. I thought that it was going to be a huge success, something like The Young Visitors or something. Unfortunately it wasn't. It was called Joey's Story.

Q:

Some books take off and others don't. I wonder why?

Cerf:

It's a story about a dog and trying to housebreak it.





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