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She's been writing"},{"startTime":630.36,"endTime":633.66,"body":"since 2002. She was born in"},{"startTime":633.66,"endTime":637.44,"body":"Fiji, but raised in New Zealand."},{"startTime":633.66,"endTime":637.44,"body":"So she's a Kiwi. She spent three"},{"startTime":637.44,"endTime":640.29,"body":"years living and working in"},{"startTime":637.44,"endTime":640.29,"body":"Japan. And she's also travelled"},{"startTime":640.29,"endTime":644.16,"body":"extensively around Asia in"},{"startTime":640.29,"endTime":644.16,"body":"general. She is of South Asian"},{"startTime":644.16,"endTime":650.22,"body":"descent. She's been a lawyer, a"},{"startTime":644.16,"endTime":650.22,"body":"librarian, a candy factory"},{"startTime":650.22,"endTime":655.14,"body":"general hand, bank temp, and an"},{"startTime":650.22,"endTime":655.14,"body":"English teacher. 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