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What makes a person who they are? Fundamentally, I mean. Is it physical, mental, spiritual,

or something else that no one's even begun to guess at yet? I know I'm not the first person asked that question.

We've been theorizing on it since we had the words to do so.

But, cliche as it may be, I'll ask again,

what makes me, me?

What makes Anna Sheridan Anna Sheridan? Ability? Talent? I don't think so. She's hardly the

first person to ever sit down and write a scary story. Not even the first writer to lose their

grasp on where the fiction ends and real life begins.

Arthur Conan Doyle tried his hand at criminal deduction on more than one occasion.

You know, when he wasn't attending seances and debating spiritualism with Harry Houdini.

That all happened, by the way. Look it up.

So if not ability, then what does define Anna K. Sheridan?

The work? The accomplishments? The awards? No. Even colder.

Without her books, she's still the same Anna. Maybe not the version the rest of

the world got to see, but still the same when you get right down to it. The friendships then,

...