I'd like to thank Emily Ziff, my friends, my friends, my friends.

BBC: Last Updated: Monday, 6 March 2006, 06:06 GMT

One, packaging scientists were less likely to know that I'd burned down the Emily Dickinson House, or even know who Emily Dickinson was, or even care.

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It should be said here that I hadn't told Anne Marie about my past, and right then I wanted to, badly: I wanted to tell Anne Marie everything about the Emily Dickinson House and how I'd burned it, accidentally, and the people I'd killed and by the way, it wasn't the first time I'd wanted to tell her such a thing.

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