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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Marcia,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Breaking News<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Typo in this sentence: <span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>His unspoken repudiation left me with an uneasy sense of security. I think you meant to write insecurity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Otherwise the chapter works well with the story line.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Leonard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv5639500115msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Saying Goodbye<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=yiv5639500115msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Poignant poem of sorrow, there is a tone of resignation. A faint glimmer of hope is a good last line.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=yiv5639500115msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=yiv5639500115msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Cleora,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Misty Christmas<o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv5639500115msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>I liked it. With the right illustrator, I think you could sell it. Of course you will have to sell it next year, sometime in the fall if you check submission guidelines for some of the magazines aimed at children. I am not sure which ones are still publishing. That will take a bit of research, but you are good at that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=yiv5639500115msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Merry Christmas. I used to know a brother and sister whose last name was Christmas. Their parents named them Merry and Jerry. I am eager to see where you take this great beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=yiv5639500115msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=yiv5639500115msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Sally<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=yiv5639500115msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>DeAnna Quietwater Noriega<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cell: 573-544-3511<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Email: <a href="mailto:dqnoriega@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>dqnoriega@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Author of <i>Fifty Years of Walking with Friends<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>https://www.dldbooks.com/dqnoriega/</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>