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I continue to dig through the layers on my computer. This is like an archaeological dig.
Here's a snip from a letter to my writer's group, written on Thursday, Dec. 22nd of the year I turned 50, so 1994:
I saw my book mentioned in Quill & Quire (the publishers' and librarians' rag) yesterday: so it's true, it's really going to happen. I'm starting to get little notes from here and there, from friends and acquaintances: congrats. That's nice. God, there might even be reviews, interviews. What then?!! The first step my anxiety has taken is to examine my nails, my teeth and my hair. Can I be seen in public? Why, at age 50, do I have pimples? What justice is there in the world?
TMI! I promise that the next bits I share here will have nothing to do with facial blemishes.
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4 comments:
This is a wonderful post, Sandra. What a great accomplishment! Blemishes...hmm. Is there really an age when one can feel confident they've truly seen the last of them;-)?
Sandra, it's surely not possible that you were 50 in 1994! I've seen you and I just don't believe it. :) BTW it is encouraging to me, in my 50's to think of all you have accomplished since then. Way to go!
Thank you, Ursula and Lilian. I just turned 66, so that date is not an illusion!
You are such an inspiration, Sandra. Thank you for this post.
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