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To research PICTURES, 1918, I pored over old insurance maps, phone books, and county histories, and I drove the back roads of Texas in my effort to write the town of Dust Crossing the way it would have been, if it had been. Of course, setting a book during the First Work War also meant delving into the political and social history of the time. That was largely library work, and my absolute best resources were the microfilmed, small-town newspapers of the day. They gave me, in their headlines and personals columns, grocery ads and calls for patriotic action, the parameters of my characters' lives.
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If she'd had this camera she'd have a picture of Straw Bit, her rabbit, who had died in the fire. She'd be able to look again at the shadowy figure she'd seen running away from the flames. And she could get a picture of her friend Nick before he goes off to college--or to war.
Right then, looking at the Autographic for the first time, Asia decides that somehow, someway, she'll make the money to buy that camera for herself....
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