"I remember feeling that if I don’t express this somehow, I’ll despair, I’ll go mad. Looking back, part of it was about trying to impose some kind of order in a process that was decidedly chaotic. Because of my profession, I tend to understand the world in words, in sequences of events. What I saw later was that I was trying to document as clearly as possible an emotional journey. And it felt important at the time that I remember it in its entirety and its complexity."
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On what motivated her to write the play Sonia Flew in “Huntington’s Melinda Lopez Gets Personal with New Play” in BU Today (2018 Jan 17)
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