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An Interview with The Author

The following transcript is the artist's rendering of an interview of author Drew Fisher as conducted by Peter Vandenhof on May 29, 2017. PV:  So, Drew. May I call you Drew? DF:  Drew is fine. PV:  How long have you been writing? DF:  I've been writing since I was 16 years old. I had a long distance relationship. I fell in love with a girl literally the week before my family and I moved 250 miles away from her. So, I wrote letters. PV:  Letters? DF:  Yes. Back then people wrote letters. A family had one telephone line per household--which had to be shared among all family members. So, the phone was not an option. We didn't have computers or texting yet. PV:  So you wrote letters? DF:  Yep. Daily. Ten pages and more. PV:  Every day. DF:  Yep. I was so in love. I pined away a whole summer for the sake of a girl I'd only known a week. It's kind of like that oldest child in Captain Fantastic-- PV:  You mean, Bo? DF:  I don't know. Was that h