In her one-room school experience, she was fascinated by her teacher’s reading of poetry at the end of the school year, as well as the themes chosen for the skits that the school presented to the parents.
Secondly, her high school English teacher encouraged the class to write short stories. As a result, one of Karen’s classmates was so impressed with her style of writing that she asked Karen to write a fictional story about a date she went on with her boyfriend.
