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　　Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The

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　　was almost unbearable. I struggled for days

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　　draft after draft. Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.

　　It didn’t take long. My manuscript

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　　. How stupid of me! I thought. How could I

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　　in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t

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　　the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.

　　Five years later, I was moving to California. While

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　　my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in

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　　:

　　Ms Profit,

　　Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some

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　　materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to

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　　your story soon.

　　Shocked, it took me a long time to

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　　. Fear of rejection cost me ly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of

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