When I was sixteen I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, 'I can't understand this at all, dear, so it must be good.'


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When I was sixteen I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B....

When I was sixteen I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B....

When I was sixteen I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B....

When I was sixteen I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B....