On Maundy Thursday—the day before we learned we were pregnant with twins—Doug and I went to the evening service at our church.
Our pastor began his meditation by mentioning that the word Maundy comes from the Latin mandate. Though you pronounce it like it’s Spanish—mon-DAH-tay—when you see it written you realize right away what it [...]
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This was the formiest form letter I’ve ever received.
Well, not quite. Once, I got a checklist rejection that looked like it had been photocopied eight years earlier from a mimeographed copy. “Dear (my name scrawled here), Thank you for your submission. We regret to say we can’t use it for the following reasons…”
Then [...]
Agent #14 wrote one of the kindest rejection letters I’ve ever received. It’s a form letter, but it’s a kind form letter, kind enough to aid my delusions that this agent really didn’t want to reject me, delusions abetted by knowing that it took three weeks instead of the promised two to get a response: [...]