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That Dangerous Teenage Crush: The Joyce Carol Oates Influence in "Because You're the First

StartFragment I honestly cannot remember a time when books were not a part of my life. So it was probably natural when I wrote my first book "Because You're the First" I wanted to write something around characters that were book lovers. I thought I would be fun to talk about some of the books, both old and new classics that were in the book. The first book talked about in the novel isn't really a book. It's actually a short story. "Where Are you Going, Where Are you From? was written by one of the most prolific writers of the modern era, Joyce Carol Oates. Joyce Carol Oates Oates based this story on an actual event that occurred in Tucson in 1966. It was based on the tale of Charles Schm