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John Chastain's avatar

Two of my law school classmates have been governors of Virginia (both right-wingers), another one was editor-in-chief of Newsweek magazine and writes books about current affairs and public figures, one founded "Games" magazine, brought Sudoku to the U.S. (curse him!), one started the E! Entertainment Network.... Bless all their hearts!

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Wise, healthy attitude, my friend. On a related note, one of my critique partner's debut novel comes out this week. I am genuinely excited for her and touched that she mentioned me in the acknowledgements. Our group has been meeting for four years now, and I've been along on this novel's journey since it was a vague idea. Last week, this writer got an email from a fellow member of a long disbanded (at least a decade ago) critique group. Was the other woman writing to congratulate her, or say she will do her part by telling everyone to read this book? No. This woman complained because she was not mentioned in the acknowledgements! Jan, recognizing the jealousy, took the high road and replied with a nice note thanking her for her years of friendship. Life is too short for that petty sh*t.

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