In 1978, Nancy Jo Sales was a lonely 13-year-old in Coral Gables, Florida with an unlikely pen pal, a 42-year-old filmmaker named Woody Allen.
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The article was originally printed in New York Magazine in April, 1993 and is available on Nancy Jo Sales’ website here.