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She agrees and promises to email me more information and samples and submission requirements and so on.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 9pt">I quit PowerPoint around 11 PM and by 2 AM have what I think is a pretty good collection of pithy little sayings.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 9pt">I never hear from the publisher again.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 9pt">I show the sayings to my friends. Some smile. Some laugh. Some actually weep over the sentimentality.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 9pt">Thus was born MOM THOUGHTS.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 9pt">Remember that dark and stormy night? My son is now 17. That makes one of my "thoughts" especially poignant for me: <i><font color="#800000">When you're a Mother, you can't afford to close your eyes -- if you do, your children grow up before you can open them again.</font> </i>I wrote that when he was 9. 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