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Thread #167964   Message #4055691
Posted By: cnd
28-May-20 - 03:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: She dreams of Indiana
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: She dreams of Indiana
The short answer is that she just made it up.

From The Florence King Reader, p. 346:

"Loath to go through another permissions wrangle, I decided to write my own Gay Nineties lyrics and let readers think they were real ones. Who would know the difference in this day and age? Who would care? Besides, they were so easy to write; all you needed was a bad girl and a snowstorm.

"... You can't beat the banks of the Wabash for a good girl one wrong, so I settled on my location and began [to write Fallen and forgotten]"