Logically, then, the beginning of the book had to take place in the morning. So this became the opening vignette: At this point my girl had no name. Sometime in the years since I had completed the manuscript as "City Thoughts," an editor friend of mine had remarked that youngsters identify more readily with a character who has a name - even if it's only in the title of the book. So I had to find her a name. It took me about three weeks to settle on "Sara." And so the book began a new life as "Sara's City."

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