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Richard La France's avatar

Fran, I so enjoy reading your posts. What you write is exactly what an author is expected to do: noticing all your surroundings in any instant and describing them, briefly or in detail.

My being so pulled in by the ruins of America has prevented me from writing the the book I've tried to write since High School in the 1960s.

Just last week I finally decided that almost all that I was reading about was complaints without solutions. So I went into lines of solutions that would absolutely patch the holes in our existence. I get more Likes than I used to but only a couple of comments if any. Still, the distraction still prevents my serious writing.

This latest post of yours has awakened me to my own preoccupation with BS. I've always been reminded by someone saying, "You can't change the world." I set out to prove differently. Good or bad, one's nature is prone to imitate the speech and/or behavior of one who is bold enough to go public.

Thank you, Fran, for calming me down simply by sharing what you are seeing or witnessing. Now I hope I can live long enough to go ahead and write my book

Richard La France

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Bruce Trachtenberg's avatar

I have to laugh. I worked in the PR dept for Reader’s Digest from 1982-1992. Over time one of my jobs was contacting by overnight mail winners of the annual (back then) $5 million prize. I put the letter in a packet with other information so the person would know it was legit. I gave them my phone number to call and discuss plans for me to escort them to Pleasantville, N.Y.—the company’s headquarters—on our jet so they could receive their prize. I did that for three winners and it was great fun each time.

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