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<A title=lhaygood@gmail.com href="mailto:lhaygood@gmail.com">Lane Haygood</A>
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<DIV>No, my characters are not like me. I can only imagine what I would be
like as a literary character. A bookish, somewhat awkward lawyer with a
penchant for self-deprecation and sarcasm? Heaven save us from such
characters.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Replace 'lawyer' with 'academic', 'writer' or
'publisher', and you have described the hero of 50% of comedic literary
fiction.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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