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Noelle
Noelle asked Marcy Dermansky:

I absolutely loved Very Nice! I have since read your 3 previous books and noticed all have open endings. Just curious as to why you prefer that type of ending? (which I find refreshing)

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John
John asked Marcy Dermansky:

Marcy, Aren't your endings a sort of stepping forward from the contradictions and dead ends sometimes of life into all the possibilities good and bad, riskinesses and crazy hopefulnesses of the future?

Kathy Houser
Kathy Houser asked Marcy Dermansky:

How do you come up with the predicaments your characters experience? Have you ever had a particular predicament as yr starting point and then changed yr mind and come up with something else?

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jacqueline tynan asked Marcy Dermansky:

Do you feel like you write some of your characters as an extension of yourself?

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