Virginia Evans

And what that was for the story and what that opened up for Sybil, I felt I was able to give her a gift in what had been a pretty painful life, that she got this sort of amazing gift in the last stretch of her life.

It just felt good and it felt...

The letters feel very dear, but not saccharine.

You know, I think they just feel, they just feel good to me.

That part of the story.

Beth, do you know the answer to this question?

I don't know.

I don't know.

It's really baffling and boggling my mind.

You know, I wrote this book when I was 34, 35, 36.

And it's what I wanted to read.

So, you know, I guess I'm kind of in that a little older than them, but in that kind of same demographic.

And as I was writing it, I didn't mean for it to be sold.

Actually, I wasn't thinking I was going to sell this book.

So I was kind of just writing it for myself.

And then when we did sell it, I thought, oh, I hope that women in their 70s feel like

like it's right, that I didn't get it wrong.

That was really scary to me.

More than any other thing, I was worried about that.

I didn't really care what reviewers or critics said.