I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.
Mine is just a simple old human story – of one person trying with great rigor and discipline to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
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I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison so we already had a deep and loving relationship and remembered our mother at those times.