nearly fell out of their chairs laughing. “Don’t be silly, only
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can become writers, ” the English teacher said, “And you are getting a D this term. ” I was so
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that I burst into tears.
That night I wrote a short
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poem about broken dreams and mailed it to the newspaper. To my
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, they published it and sent me two dollars. I was a published and
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writer. I showed my teacher and fellow students. They
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. “Just plain dumb luck, ” the teacher said. I tasted
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. I’d sold the first thing I’d ever written. That was more than any of them had done and if it was just dumb luck, that was
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with me.
During the next two years I sold dozens of
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, letters, jokes and recipes. By the time I
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from high school, with a C minus average, I had scrapbooks filled with my published works. I
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mentioned my writing to my teachers, friends or my family again. They were dream killers and
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people must choose between their friends and their dreams, they must always choose their
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