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Julie Gray is the founder and owner of The Script Department, a story notes and analysis service for aspiring and established writers. She also writes daily content for The Rouge Wave, a screenwriting blog with tips, box office analysis and edu-tainment for writers of all stripes. She lives in Los Angeles with her daughter.

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: My pledge to humanity

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Recently, I spent some time with a good friend whom I hadn't seen in awhile. I knew she had cancer, but I hadn't heard the update. You see what's coming, don't you? We're driving down Fairfax Boulevard, in Los Angeles, when she says, rather off-handedly, "It's in my bones. Stage four." A silence engulfed the car - as if all possibility for conversation had been sucked out the window. I gripped the steering wheel and was suddenly keenly aware of the traffic, the pedestrians, anything but what was being said. She went on talking about her teenaged daughters, and how they're dealing with it, ...

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