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She appears ahead to her 83-calendar year-previous sister Christina’s day by day telephone test-in ("Yes, I’m still here"), fixes vegan meals from scratch, meditates, coaches a handful of very long-distance writing shoppers, watches televangelist Joel Osteen, thinks by means of that memoir she nonetheless intends to produce, can make notes on novels she hopes to compose, and surfs the internet for details on growing old and nutrition for her weblog. That voice matches an official photograph from her before days, when she was a star editor of romance novels at Dell, then a division of Doubleday, in New York. Specifically, an electronic mail she experienced gained in May from Alyssa Day, the president of the Romance Writers of America, an firm primarily based in northwest Houston, not too much from the white and rich exurb of Champions. There are numerous romance novels, yes, as well as a lot more-cerebral tomes these kinds of as A Nervous Splendor, a history of Vienna in the late eighteen eighties. Family photos, some courting back again just about to that time, populate a tiny desk in a residing place corner. Anjeanette Damon: Are you all set for me? Anjeanette Damon: And you're however, like, in your lingerie, and you happen to be sitting in the same chair.