Allegra Huston
Allegra Huston
Allegra Hustonis an English writer and editor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 August 1964
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I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
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I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.
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I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.
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Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.