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Kim says, "What it takes to go on writing is one person who recognizes what you are doing."
Gertrude Stein would have agreed. The one person who understood her writing, Alice B. Toklas, changed Stein's destiny. The lonely and depressed—perhaps suicidal—young woman turned into the apparently self-assured writer who was able to proclaim, "I am a genius," when she was considered unreadable and most critics ridiculed her. Writing against all odds—most writers I know write for the one special person who is able to offer true encouragement because the writer's work is seen, recognized, acknowledged for what it is. Any good collaboration is based on the same principle, of course.
I had a sister very close in age to me with whom I spent every day of my childhood. Ever since then, I have felt extremely comfortable in teams of two or more. Sharing a creative endeavor instantly plunges me back into the playfulness of childhood, with its spices of daring, competition, insouciance. Collaborating with Kim therefore was a natural for me. From the first moment of our friendship we began talking about our writing, discovering word games in all of our languages, cooking up projects we could share, and editing each other's work. Sometimes it takes an effort for me to withdraw into my own private language/writing territory where I have to—and in fact want to—play alone.
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