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- ↑ "Pieces of a Life", New York Times, Feb 25, 1996, by Jay Parini
- 1 2 "'I loved the wrong person': Diane Schoemperlen on how she fell in love with a prison inmate". The Globe and Mail, Sarah Hampson, March 24, 2017
- ↑ "Our Lady of the Lost and Found". Quill and Quire, March 2001 issue
- ↑ "Review: This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications". Quill and Quire, June 2016 issue
- ↑ "My lover the convict: The allure of incarcerated men". McLeans, Anne Kingston, April 22, 2016
