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		<title>Why I Write</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia Hawkins]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;ve ever wondered &#8230;.  So, Stymie Magazine of Sports Literature asked me recently to explain myself.  For starters, there&#8217;s this: At first I wrote because my mom said I was excellent at telling tall tales, and it’s always nice to be excellent at something besides making a ventriloquist dummy of a rubber-worm fishing lure sing “Free to Be … You and Me.” Check out the rest here.  My creative nonfiction story &#8220;Sport of the Future&#8221; appears in Stymie&#8217;s Spring/Summer 2012 issue, which can be found here on page 25 (but read the whole issue while you&#8217;re at it because it&#8217;s full of &#8220;feminine perspective&#8221; awesomeness).]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">In case you&#8217;ve ever wondered &#8230;.  So, <em>Stymie Magazine of Sports Literature</em> asked me recently to explain myself.  For starters, there&#8217;s this:</p>
<blockquote><p>At first I wrote because my mom said I was excellent at telling tall tales, and it’s always nice to be excellent at something besides making a ventriloquist dummy of a rubber-worm fishing lure sing “Free to Be … You and Me.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Check out the rest <a href="http://www.stymiemag.com/2012/10/why-i-write-or-how-i-learned-to-stop.html">here</a>.  My creative nonfiction story &#8220;Sport of the Future&#8221; appears in <em>Stymie&#8217;s</em> Spring/Summer 2012 issue, which can be found <a href="http://issuu.com/stymiemag/docs/stymie_ss12_final">here</a> on page 25 (but read the whole issue while you&#8217;re at it because it&#8217;s full of &#8220;feminine perspective&#8221; awesomeness).</p>
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