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Really great story! I cried with you about the guy memorializing his dead friend. We can only hope to love people on this Earth who love us back quite so fiercely as he did. Thank you for sharing this. ❤️

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This is the best thing I've read in a long while. It's absolutely bursting with life and feeling. Please keep this up.

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Sep 25·edited Sep 25Liked by Lirpa Strike

I'm sorry if this comment comes off as in any way patronizing!

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Not at all! Thank you for the kind words 😀

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You're very welcome. If you can write with that kind of power and vivid emotional force, you're better than 95% of people trying to do it (including a lot of respected and successful authors).

One reviewer of Fitzgerald's first ("This Side of Paradise," 1920) wrote "Mr. Fitzgerald's novel fails almost every literary test, except the most vital: it does not fail to live."

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