Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
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I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?
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