Original sentence: I have written before that I never completely fulfilled my original intentions in writing Picnic before we went into production in 1953, and that I wrote what some considered a fortuitous ending in order to have a finished play to go into rehearsal
Edited sentence: As a closeted homosexual, Inge clearly had no problem with public misconceptions of his relationship with Barbara Baxley, an actress who had the lead in several of his plays, according to the Barbara Baxley Papers in the Billy Rose Theatre Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.I have written before that I never completely fulfilled my original intentions in writing 'Picnic' before we went into production in 1953, and that I wrote what some considered a fortuitous ending in order to have a finished play to go into rehearsal