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Friday, November 5, 2010
The Truth Lies Elsewhere
Posted on 11:20 AM
by humpty
This is a new one: your work "lies outside our publishing program." Funny how many different ways people think up to say -- what? Not for us? Not good enough? Not a prayer? Who knows?
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