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A Woman to Know: Jane Vonnegut Yarmolinsky

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Julia Carpenter
Apr 13, 2016
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Jane would cry 'It's all an ocean!' when she was struck by how everything was interconnected. — Vonnegut biographer Ginger Strand

(Photo by Edith Vonnegut)

When Kurt Vonnegut was fielding rejection after rejection after rejection in the early days of his writing career, his wife Jane would keep three candles alight on the kitchen table. They stood for thr…

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