Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject mat…

Laura Hillenbrand
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Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it
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