Personal Essay by Vinegar Hill Author A. Manette Ansay

The Story I Was Asked Not to Write

by A. Manette Ansay

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Read a personal essay by Oprah's Book Club author A. Manette Ansay about how her own battle with illness led her to writing.

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Published on November 10, 1999

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