When I pressed the send button back in January of this year I felt anything but relief. I should have felt it though, I should have been smiling and thinking positive thoughts. I should have been able to say: Wow that is the best I could have done. 

I didn't. It wasn't.  

It felt rushed and I felt as if I had cheated those characters out of their story. They had something important to say and I had the nerve to rush them just to meet a deadline for a contest. It wasn't as if there wer...


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