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Why do I do this? Not tor money, certainly, which next to love, makes the world go around. Not for love either, now that that word popped up. To find the answer I must go bade to the beginning, or, why did I start the column?
It was a sunny Sunday, riding the back roads in Rappahannock, the most beautiful spot in the world when I came upon some discarded kittens. I wrote a letter to the editor, exaggerated, waxed humorous, got rid of the cats and reeerved complements on my writing. It was the complements that did it folks. That is why I started. And that is why I still do it, for the
I never had any daydreams of being a writer, maybe an actor, an inventor, a public speaker, a big lottery winner, but not a writer.
I just looked, a moment ago, at the transcript of my college grades. My English literature and composition grades on the percentage scale waa about a 78 percent and remembering.that they graded on the hated curve I probably stood about 750 out of 800. A little above “Dick and Jane” but no
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