It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer. (Leslie Banks)

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

Leslie Banks

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