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I have a character (say Lucy) that in various circles is always pretending to be someone else with another name: She is Mary, Lisa, Brittany, Virginia. The narrator always calls her Lucy. She intr...
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I have a character (say Lucy) that in various circles is always pretending to be someone else with another name: She is Mary, Lisa, Brittany, Virginia. The narrator always calls her Lucy. She introduces herself as (e.g.) Mary, people call her Mary, she responds to Mary. > "Mary, you have to tell us, how was Paris?" > > Lucy winced. "Cold and wet! You don't want to be in Paris this time of year! At least the pastry shop next door wasn't crowded, I think I spent every minute resisting it. With failures. Many, many failures!"