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Heidi Reimer is a novelist and writing coach. Her front row seat to the theatre world of her debut novel, The Mother Act, began two decades ago when she met and married an actor, and her immersion in motherhood began when she adopted a toddler and discovered she was pregnant on the same day. Her writing interrogates the lives of women, usually those bent on breaking free of what they’re given to create what they yearn for. She loves smart, propulsive stories with complicated characters and deep exploration of the female experience.

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I Did Not Marry a Trash Collector

The first summer of my relationship with my now-husband—an enchanted summer, naturally—he was acting in New York City, playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest. I was a country girl from Northern Ontario who’d seen only one professional play in my life (and that was one in which he starred, the first time I ever laid eyes on him).

I’d packed all my bel

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