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The Watsons Have Lost Sight Of The Fact That Mercy Watson Is A Pig, And They Love Her Truly, Madly, Deeply. They Live Next Door To Two Elderly Sisters, Eugenia Lincoln And Baby Lincoln. Eugenia Lincoln Is Horrified That A Pig Is Living In The House Next Door. Baby Lincoln Secretly Likes Mercy A Great Deal.

I Read My Books Out Loud To Myself Because Of The Demands Of The Story And Demands Of Language.

Things Are Not At All What They Seem To Be: Oh No, Not At All.

Every Morning For, I Don't Know How Long, I Came Over To Alison's [mcghee] House And We Sat In Her Office And Wrote The Stories "out Loud" Together. We Yelled At Each Other And Made Each Other Laugh. It Was A Lot Of Fun.

Sometimes Strange And Wonderful Things Will Pop Into My Head. And Sometimes I Will See Something In The World That Is The Beginning Of A Story. I Always Have A Notebook With Me So That I Can Write Down What I See And Hear.