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I’ve been horrible at updating. I can’t promise that will get better, or that I’m going to “try my hardest” to write a blog entry. Life happens to get in the way rather a lot, you know? And I wouldn’t want your expectations too high.<br />
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I recently picked up a new HP laptop. It has a touch screen, Office and internet access, plus a pretty damn good battery and that’s really all that I need. I’m writing this right now on the laptop, actually. On my way home. On the train. Which is why I bought the laptop. Full circle, that.<br />
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If you haven’t seen it, go check out the Keep on Writing series on drunkonwriting.com or youtube.com/drunkonwriting. If you didn’t know, that’s a content channel of mine wherein I celebrate and highlight a many a thing related to writing, and Keep on Writing is a series I started filming back at the start of 2019 that documents my writing process, any changes and updates in it, and… you know, the lack of writing also. It’s pure motivation to keep going, and new episodes will be going up each and every month for the time being. It’ll probably be updated more often than this will. Though, who knows.<br />
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I started 2019 with a goal to update this site at least once every month. I added a few video scripts to pad content, but it never truly constituted a “site.” And I don’t want this page to revolve around the blog anymore. So, a redesign is in order. Has anyone tried WIX? I dabbled a few minutes earlier and it seems terribly slow. Unbelievably so, in fact. As they keep telling me, my generation has no time for slowness.<br />
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As you can tell, this entry has no structure. I don’t plan on rereading it, either. Please forgive any mistakes. They’re part of the craft, after all.<br />
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I came up with another idea for a short story. Maybe I’ll turn it into a film, instead. Maybe it’ll never be written.<br />
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It’s hot in here.<br />
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I’ve been thinking about the Procyk Forfeit trilogy a lot lately. I have a few physical copies left in my closet waiting to be sold, but they’ve been trickling out here and there through Amazon and Barnes & Noble, so that’s nice. I need to finish the tale, don’t I? I’ve written the third novel over again twice, and fear at least a third is in order before I’m satisfied with it. It just doesn’t deliver what I want, and that simply can’t be.<br />
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I had four hours of sleep last night. It wasn’t enough. But I don’t think I can possibly drink any more coffee. My stomach starts to not like it so much after a few too many cups. I’m hungry.<br />
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You ever wonder how people without a creative outlet get along in the world? I do. Do their brains not fire as rapidly as mine? Do ideas not flow? Or do they simply let shit go, spill over their earlobes like salt water? Must be nice. Quiet. Boring. Happy?<br />
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Well, I’m happy to be writing again. It’s been too long. Not that it ever truly stopped. It transformed. And now I need to pull a Fly and kill of the non-motivation. Am I remembering that movie wrong? I remember somebody dragging him/itself along the ground near the end. He got completely screwed. Maybe that was the sequel.<br />
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I think I’ll reread my books again after this next Stephen King. Maybe that’ll put me in the right mindset.<br />
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Bye for now.<br />
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2018 marks the thirtieth anniversary of <i>Die Hard</i>—arguably one of, if not the, best action films ever made—so much so that “<i>Die Hard</i> in a blank” became the go-to phrase to describe a whole subgenre of films for years. <br>
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To celebrate this momentous occasion and the film itself, I thought it’d be cool to dig into <i>why Die Hard</i> works as well as it does, and how so much of that comes right down to the film’s writing. <br>
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But first, and maybe you caught this in the movie’s credits, did you know <i>Die Hard</i>’s based on a book?<br>
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Welcome back to Drunk on Writing, and the ninth episode of the Stephen King Dissection series. Or should I say, the second episode of the Richard Bachman series? Because today, we’re talking <i>The Long Walk</i>, a book I’d never really heard of before this year, but which is now, easily, my favorite Stephen King novel yet. <br>
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Welcome back to Drunk on Writing, and the eighth episode of the Stephen King Dissection series. Today, we’re going in-depth into one of King’s most beloved novels, <i>The Stand</i>, as well its two adaptations: the 1994 ABC TV mini-series, and the more recent Marvel Comics series.<br>
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Welcome back to Drunk on Writing, and the seventh episode of the Stephen King Dissections. Today, we’re finishing up <i>Night Shift</i> by taking looks at everything from “The Lawnmower Man” to “The Woman in the Room” plus their worthwhile adaptations. <br>
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Welcome back to Drunk on Writing, and the sixth episode of the special Stephen King Series of Dissections. Today, we’re continuing our look at Night Shift, covering the stories from “Gray Matter” to “The Ledge” along with any adaptations I feel are worth a mention.<br>
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Welcome back to Drunk on Writing, and the fifth episode of the special Stephen King Series of Dissections. Today, we’re going to look at the very first short stories collection King released: <i>Night Shift</i>, published in 1978, collecting 20 stories—some previously published, some brand spanking new. <br>
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The Drunk on Writing Scripts continue today with the Dissection of <i>Rage</i>, the first of the Richard Bachman books published. If you'd rather watch the video, a link is included at the bottom. <br>
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Welcome back to the special Drunk on Writing Scripts! <br>
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Today, we’re going to talk about Stephen King’s follow-up to <i>Carrie</i>, one that goes in an entirely different direction. I’m talking, of course, about <i>‘Salem’s Lot</i>, originally published in 1975—just a little over a year after <i>Carrie</i>—and reportedly King’s favorite of all the books he’s written.<br>
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Admittedly, though I’ve only just read it for the first time, I might have to agree with him.<br>
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And its adaptation is pretty good, too! <br>
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Before we get to all that, if you want to watch the video instead, you can do so <a href="https://youtu.be/6iVQWRTv5HY" target="_blank">here</a> or the video embedded below. Feel free to subscribe to the YouTube channel so you can follow along as the videos are posted! <br>
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That said, let’s talk ‘Salem’s Lot.<br>
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Because I hate to waste anything whatsoever, to go along with the newly launched <a href="http://www.warrenpawlowski.com/p/blog-page_6.html" target="_blank">Drunk on Writing</a> Stephen King Dissections series (patent pending), every other week I’ll be posting the “script” to each video. Modified, of course, and not <i>really</i> a script, but hey, it’s a thing.<br>
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Today’s write-up is for Stephen King’s debut novel, the 1974 <i>Carrie</i>.<br>
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Before we get to it, if you want to watch the video instead, you can do so <a href="https://youtu.be/YU3s3zvqIfI" target="_blank">here</a> or the video embedded below. Feel free to subscribe to the YouTube channel so you can follow along as well. <br>
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So, let’s talk <i>Carrie</i>, shall we?<br>
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So, I read 15 books in 2017. Or there were at least 15 books I wrote about below. I feel like I maybe read one or two or three others but forgot to mark it down. Oh well. The only thing that means is I’m down a few titles compared to 2016—but only three, and I read a lot of <i>The Walking Dead</i> last year compared to a whole mess of non-fiction this one, so I feel pretty accomplished.<br>
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Not sure why I felt like binging non-fiction, but it was enjoyable. And I managed to sneak four novels in there just to break things up. It also helps balance the next year—which is pretty much going to be me and the entire Stephen King bibliography. If you’ve any interest in that, be sure to check the Drunk on Writing page of this site, or head on over to YouTube or Patreon for more info.<br>
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Back to the point, here’re some thoughts I had while reading this year.<br>
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io9 threw a writing contest that ended last week. You can read <a href="https://io9.gizmodo.com/write-a-short-story-about-the-economics-of-the-future-a-1800020162" target="_blank">all of the details here</a>, but here’s the gist of it:<br>
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My cousin was the first to let me know about the contest, but I heard from a few others who said they were going to submit a story. After all, the grand prize is $12,000—something rather unheard of, at least recently, in regard to such a short piece.<br>
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I’m not sure if they submitted anything, but I sure did: a 2,700 word story I simply titled “61.”<br>
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I just wrote a new short story. It’s not terribly good yet—it’s just a draft—and it took far longer to write than I felt it should have, but I did it. <br>
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There’re a few reasons I wrote this story. This <i>short </i>story that is. First, I recently read a book about space (Mary Roach’s <i>Packing for Mars</i>, which I picked up years ago as an advance reading copy at Book Expo America) and wanted to put down my own take about the utter blackness out there. The emptiness. <br>
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But, more importantly, I’ve been really struggling to write of late.<br>
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After hinting at it for a few months, I can officially announce I’m running for Milford’s Board of Education. To say I’m excited is an understatement, and I hope to make my city, and my district, proud.<br />
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Writing will continue, as will <a href="https://www.patreon.com/drunkonwriting" target="_blank">Drunk on Writing</a>, but I want to do more. More for my son, more for my town, more for my state and even my country. And running for office, running for this position—this is only the beginning.<br />
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So remember, if you live in <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/fywWO" target="_blank">Milford’s third district</a>, fill in that little circle next to Pawlowski. You won’t regret it.</div>
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<i>Last time I wrote about those moments before bed. Today I'm writing about those moments before waking. </i><br>
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<i>This totally wasn't planned. </i><br>
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Sunday night, I dreamed. It was one of those dreams I wake up from immediately knowing I need to do something with it, that it shouldn’t be lost to the void that is daylight, and so I worked to remember, to capture every detail as I showered, as I dressed, and then, before eating, before doing anything else at all, proceeded to throw as many of those details as I could into a note on my phone. It took about ten minutes.<br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGNYQ9oN59sqs5OTo5CMJVwoFeihGNRcYGRJS5h_XA1ynQhvtHmDzyxdhUNX9_oV0ueMrpp25u38ZBFD4YP8vthmHbFvKp_o5di6ZnS_z-NGwiWFRY4uLgXIVx8fAgAlF613QJ5AdliQ4/s1600/long_haired_freaky_people.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="570" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGNYQ9oN59sqs5OTo5CMJVwoFeihGNRcYGRJS5h_XA1ynQhvtHmDzyxdhUNX9_oV0ueMrpp25u38ZBFD4YP8vthmHbFvKp_o5di6ZnS_z-NGwiWFRY4uLgXIVx8fAgAlF613QJ5AdliQ4/s320/long_haired_freaky_people.jpg" width="320"></a>The other night, listening to the brucka-brucka of the ceiling fan, feeling the weight of the comforter pushing into me, inhaling the sweet stench of saltwater air, I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t get comfortable, couldn’t do much but think and review and imagine. <br>
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I thought of my day, of what I did, what I said, how I’d spent my time. And considered what I could have done better, what I could’ve accomplished if I’d tried a different path, wondered if I could follow that path the next day, or perhaps the day after that. I imagined life as a puzzle, a Cretan labyrinth of such days, of such thoughts, and wondered if the concept of the multiverse could be true, if, somewhere, somewhen, there’s another version of me who had followed a different path, one who, at that very moment, was considering what it would be like if they had followed the one I had chosen to take that day. <br>
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Am I my own multiverse?<br>
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I sat down to write this update and realized I simply didn’t want to do it, that I had nothing I felt like saying. I considered that, that feeling, and almost wrote something anyway, but I didn’t think that would be valuable, wouldn’t give you, as a reader, any sense that I respected your time and attention. I don’t want you to think that, to feel that, because I truly do. I want to give you the best product I can, here and in my books and most definitely in my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/warrenpawlowski" target="_blank">newly launched YouTube series</a>.<br>
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So, instead of writing some forced bullshit, I closed that Word doc and opened up <i>Trezka</i>, then wrote for about two hours. It’s the longest continuous stretch I’ve been able to do that in some time, and it was really refreshing to just pump out a few thousand words without any distractions.<br>
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Which brings me to my actual thought of the day: <i>compulsory creation is bullshit</i>.<br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlYUOA1OHVTIWRsXeT5fBHIRHG6D1DcV_43fHX5M1W2Jl2VXPNgowyi0Xv0FcrvBk8fw92vvm7NmB6Lm9Ccb36wZu9l4VVtfRD0jQURSS_bt7kAxmQ2U1dOU359dQDLC9sFtefgB8d1o0/s1600/I+got+this.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlYUOA1OHVTIWRsXeT5fBHIRHG6D1DcV_43fHX5M1W2Jl2VXPNgowyi0Xv0FcrvBk8fw92vvm7NmB6Lm9Ccb36wZu9l4VVtfRD0jQURSS_bt7kAxmQ2U1dOU359dQDLC9sFtefgB8d1o0/s320/I+got+this.jpg" width="269"></a>Just <a href="http://www.warrenpawlowski.com/2017/05/killing-trezka-gives-me-some-fckin-hope.html" target="_blank">a few</a> entries ago, I noted how much I loathed <i>Trezka</i>’s current form, that I was going to blow it <br>
up, reform it, remaster it, and find a place I could be happy with it.<br>
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Well, I think I’ve done it.<br>
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I’ve noted before that<i> Trezka</i> exists, in a most basic sense, as two parts. So let’s talk about it as such.<br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVY0ofLVj4eo37UpAD7bL6KrHxbSspBhANfB_7R2vlsURzlCz8uJLWbM1HEUF_GysNdAN-dHNtbPoJilReZ1xBfRYPRKFZCyLsf2oW6hAPAwaov6Yv8kRnCKTapDyIK7mGvOxBgpRNq0/s1600/drunkonwriting_logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVY0ofLVj4eo37UpAD7bL6KrHxbSspBhANfB_7R2vlsURzlCz8uJLWbM1HEUF_GysNdAN-dHNtbPoJilReZ1xBfRYPRKFZCyLsf2oW6hAPAwaov6Yv8kRnCKTapDyIK7mGvOxBgpRNq0/s320/drunkonwriting_logo.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><i>“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”</i></b><br />
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That’s a quote from Ray Bradbury’s <i>Zen in the Art of Writing</i>, originally published in 1987, and it’s part of the inspiration for my new project, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/drunkonwriting" target="_blank">Drunk on Writing</a>.<br />
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<b>Drunk on Writing is a celebration of storytelling.</b> Whether in the form of a novel, a script, a lyric, I want to take a look at what makes a piece of writing relevant and important. I also want to delve into what makes writers tick, how writing has evolved, and where it’s going from here.<br />
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<b>Drunk on Writing is launching today with three types of videos:</b><br />
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<li><i>Dissections: </i>Part review, part analysis, I’ll go in-depth about one or more pieces of writing, exploring their themes, their creation, their inspirations and more.</li>
<li><i>The History of Writing: </i>Writing is taken for granted today, but where did it all begin? How did it develop? How did we go from using sticks and mud to keyboards and mice? We’re going to explore all of these questions and more.</li>
<li><i>Reacts: </i>No script, no outline, just pure reactions to writing-related happenings in the world, whether it’s the latest Star Wars trailer, J.K. Rowling apologizing for yet another death, or the latest limited beer release.</li>
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Which brings me to the <i>other</i> part of Drunk on Writing.<br />
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<b>Most episodes will also feature a beverage of some sort. </b>Whether it’s beer, wine, whiskey, tequila, mescal, gin or a cocktail. There'll be episodes dedicated solely to one or more of the above as well. Because while celebrating writing, with this series I’m also going to delve into the world of craft brewing and distilling—its own sort of storytelling, really, and certainly writing-related. Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others, will clearly attest to that.<br />
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But what really ties these two, seemingly drastically different, worlds together is that they both offer ways to escape reality, to make the bleak look a little rosier. And I think that’s danged important this day and age.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/warrenpawlowski/" target="_blank">Drunk on Writing will live on YouTube</a>, but I’m launching it through <a href="https://www.patreon.com/drunkonwriting" target="_blank">Patreon</a>.</b> With Patreon, viewers like you can be part of the vision, the celebration, the escape that Drunk on Writing is and will be. You can also get early access to videos, exclusive behind the scenes looks at how they’re made, and even a chance to tell me what to look at in the Dissections.<br />
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<b>The first episode of Drunk on Writing will post to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/warrenpawlowski/" target="_blank">YouTube</a> next Tuesday, June 13, with new episodes coming every other Tuesday thereafter. </b>As certain goals are hit, though, the number of videos, and the types of videos, will increase. Keep checking here, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/drunkonwriting" target="_blank">Patreon</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/warrenpawlowski/" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/drunkonwriting" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/drunkonwritin" target="_blank">Twitter</a> for updates!<br />
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The <a href="http://www.warrenpawlowski.com/2017/02/writing-and-personal-plans-for-2017.html" target="_blank">last time</a> I wrote about <i>Trezka</i>, the final chapter of the Procyk Forfeit trilogy, I noted that I was continuing to “evolve” it into a strong ending for the series, and that I planned to work on it extensively throughout 2017.<br>
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Well, all of that is still true. However, I realized something this past week.<br>
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<i>Trezka</i> sucks.<br>
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This morning, I got what could be considered bad news. That is, I didn’t land a new job. Needless to say, I was a bit bummed, more because of the loss of the change of life the job would have initiated than the job itself, but, the news left me thinking. Actually, not the news, but the <i>reasoning</i> behind it. <br>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBMeXPOZxYpIWH7bl4bvNRO46OPKX9cGInuiN358H5zRH2mNzHWlNyGY2FYOC5I7XPPrztDgcTz4rosqEAdplaL9xNMQSK5T3Uo1W4qDVjBYEGc2BA68rwjmlh9u6SYpuIy599tRByMKo/s1600/the_reader_itunes_movie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBMeXPOZxYpIWH7bl4bvNRO46OPKX9cGInuiN358H5zRH2mNzHWlNyGY2FYOC5I7XPPrztDgcTz4rosqEAdplaL9xNMQSK5T3Uo1W4qDVjBYEGc2BA68rwjmlh9u6SYpuIy599tRByMKo/s200/the_reader_itunes_movie.jpg" width="200"></a></td></tr>
<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">This is the real <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-reader/id308031025" target="_blank"><i>The Reader</i></a>. It has <br>
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</tbody></table>It was about three weeks ago that the first person stopped me. She caught me in the break room as I was refilling my coffee that morning, looked me over and said, “You’re the Reader, right?” <br>
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Yes, there was a capitalization in her voice.<br>
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I turned to her and, with a laugh and a smile that refused to go away, replied, “I sure am.”<br>
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