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You send me an e-mail. You tell me you’ve written over three hundred poems since you were 16in your teenage angst stage. You mention the novel you’ve completed and it’s really good it really is!!!, and the novel-in-progress. You mention how the International Library of Poetry has published one of your poems. But, whom haven’t they published
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