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Claire Donald

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I guess so.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Yeah.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And he eventually started working as a real estate developer.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

But when he was in the army, the family was constantly moving and she was an army brat.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And her father was quite depressed when she was growing up.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And she said she didn't even realize that he was depressed because it was just so the M.O.,

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

until she got older and she was like wow that is depression wow god that is sad really tough and i'm sure with her father being like this and with her family moving so much as a kid joan was really shy she was a deeply anxious girly hear that and she was hyper observant and she later said that moving frequently as a child made her feel permanently displaced and like a perpetual outsider

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I truly can't imagine.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Like, I really can't imagine.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I know so many people go through that.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Just like different school districts, different cities.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I lived in the same โ€“ my mom lived in the same house for like 31 years.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

That's crazy.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I moved like houses quite a bit.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I think I moved like maybe eight times as a kid.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And even that for me, like โ€“ I mean, you can imagine.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Mental breakdown every time.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Even if it was four blocks away.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Like, how could you do this to me?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

You're talking to earth signs right here.