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I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

Janet Evanovich

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Janet Evanovich
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: April 22
Novelist
Writer
South River
New Jersey
Steffie Hall
Went
Burned
Must
Rejection
Boxes
Thousands
Letters
Cry
Took
Curb
Huge
Crying

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