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Kate Beeby's avatar

So helpful. Thank you.

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Michael Shapiro's avatar

Thanks Kate

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Valerie Kalfrin's avatar

I loved this. Thank you.

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Michael Shapiro's avatar

Thanks

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Emily Ding's avatar

I really, really needed this. Thank you!

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Michael Shapiro's avatar

Glad it could help

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D. D. Doernberg's avatar

Hear, hear! Authentic & genuine wisdom needed to be written and now read.

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Michael Shapiro's avatar

Thanks!

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Pat Aube Gray's avatar

Great advice. So much easier to read than to do! Guilty as charged!

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Tim Vickery's avatar

Magic! I recall that story and the obit-of-Jerry-Falwell exercise too and your coaching Mike, thanks. It also takes me back to Lviv, Ukraine just 2-3 months after I graduated and was reporting a breaking news tragedy after a fighter plane cartwheeled through a crowd at an airshow. Wild dogs were circling the morgue, drawn by the stench of dozens of bodies and I called my editor to ask if she wanted that in to 'bring people to the scene'. She did. My gut was validated. Thanks!

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Michael Shapiro's avatar

Good to hear from you Tim. Validated indeed!

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