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It only took spilling coffee on a white shirt once for ain Even if it did feel a bit silly I’d been working from home for nearly a year Yet, I’d kept up my old routine, like I still had an office job Which, sadly, hadn’t been the case for about three months

It wasn’t a case of old habits dying hard, though they absolutely did, as , but it could make a difference Act like you have a job, and you won’t feel unemployed Even if an unemployment check was the only real income you saw

The angels sang, the rooht as laptop ca my skull with music, I set about the labors of the day, hopeful in heart but steely in determination

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I kneasn’t the hottest fox on the planet, but it wasn’t likeI had a pretty enough face, and while I’d never been happy with the size of my waist, it was accompanied by a decently sized bust and hips

Yet, alone I rele, but a virgin, teeks shy of my 25th birthday

It felt very much like I’d left no stone unturned in my relentless search, for either love or for a new job Except that there was always another stone

A growing sense of pessireatly darken ears, and s, over towhat I would actually find there that fateful

It wasn’t the first tinized the type so readily Still, there was no e in my inbox

The response was froest small press publisher on the west coast What they lacked in print runs they made up for in mystique There was never a book that their coarner instant critical acclaim

That kind of hype, combined with the scarcity of copies, ensured the company sold out of every book they chose to print Nu Like fil roo sold-out

While based on a tely personal Unlike any form letter I’d ever seen

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I was able, and al onto the coroup, nment they currently had on offer, before the ed twice

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