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| Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling's life is like a fairy tale. Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling __1__ Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone __2__ a table in a caf? during her daughter's naps-and it was Harry Potter __3__ rescued her. Rowling __4__ that she always wanted to write and that the first __5__ she actually wrote down, when she was five or six, was a story about a rabbit __6__ Rabbit. Many of her favorite __7__ center around readinghearing The Wind in the Willows __8__ aloud by her father when she had the measles (麻疹), enjoying the fantastic adventure stories of E. Nesbit, and her favorite story of all, The Little White Horse. At Exeter University Rowling took her degree in French and __9__ one year studying in Paris. After college she moved to London to __10__ as a researcher and bilingual secretary. The best thing about working in an office, she has said, was __11__ up stories on the computer when no one was __12__. During this time, on a particularly long train ride from Manchester to London in the summer of 1990, the idea __13__ her of a boy who is a wizard and doesn't know it. He __14__ a school for wizardry-she could see him very plainly in her mind. By the time the train __15__ into King's Cross station four hours later, many of the characters and the early stages of the plot were fully __16__ in her head. The story took further shape as she continued working on it in __17__ and cafes over her lunch hours. After her marriage to a Portuguese TV journalist ended in divorce, Rowling returned to Britain with her infant daughter and a suitcase full of Harry Potter notes and __18__. She settled in Edinburgh to be near her sister and __19__ to finish the book before looking for a teaching job. Wheeling her daughter's carriage around the city to escape their __20__, cold apartment, she would duck into coffee shops to write when the baby fell asleep. In this way she finished the book and started sending it to publishers. | ||||
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