Date:    Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:30:26 EDT
<br>From:    Carol Andrus <CLAndrus[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>Subject: Re: Metropolitan Diary
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<br>I did put 2 shorts in the MD; then I realized that Ron Alexander retains
<br>rights to them and sells them to Reader's Digest for a fortune. The next one I
<br>came across, I sent directly to RD. for 93 words, I got a check for $400.
<br>Here: "I was driving across Kansas and needed some envelopes to mail stuff. I
<br>was driving through this  dusty town and saw a store: Sign in gold letters on
<br>the store window: Hooper's Stationary Store. I pulled in, went in, got my
<br>evelopes, went to the counter, no one but Mrs. Hooper at the counter. I said,
<br>are you Mrs. Hooper? Indeed I am, she said. Mrs. Hooper ... and I explained
<br>about her sign. Well what does the one with the "a" mean. I said, unmoving,
<br>immobile, in one place..." She took my money, went to the cash register, got
<br>my change (I could see she was disturbed) and came back and said: Well, honey,
<br>I can explain that. We've been at this location for 17 years."
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