That's __5__ she started writing down things that she liked in a notebook.“It was like a friend,and it __6__ me that there are good things,__7__ everything around me is unpleasant,”she says.She copied the list over and over,__8__ new things every day.
One day,she decided to __9__ her list with some of the girls in her class,hoping they would think it was as much fun as she did.But __10__,they make her feel stupid again.“They laughed at me,” she remembers,“I was ashamed,and I __11__ doing it.”
Here comes the __12__ part.When she was in 10th grade,Kipfer found her old notebook and decided to __13__ where she left off.“It was like a diary,like a photograph of my life,” she says.She started writing to publishers,asking them if they'd be interested in printing her list as a book.
She kept writing to one company __14__,because she liked the types of books it printed.“He kept saying,‘It's just a list,what am I supposed to do with it?’” “You're not __15__ to do anything with it.It's __16__ supposed to remind people of something they did that was really __17__.”
Finally,the publisher __18__ to turn Kipfer's list into a book,which sold more than 1 million copies!14,000 Things to Be Happy About even __19__ it to be New York Times Best Sellers List.__20__ being a bestselling author,Kipfer also went to realize her dream of becoming a sports editor at the Chicago Tribune.
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