I was thinking the other day of a Facebook post I did a few years ago about autographing a young boy’s book.
The kid was leaning up against me as I signed.
His mother said, “Stop leaning on her,” and the boy looked up at his mother and said, “It’s okay, mom. She knows me.”
I was so moved by the notion that we knew each other because of the stories I had written, the stories he had read.
Looking back on it now, after a year of no signings, no physical contact, I can still feel that connection.
I can feel those readers leaning in.
I want them to know I’m leaning back.
We’re leaning on each other with story.

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