"During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted."

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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

— Ernest Hemingway