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Your Stories of the Rejection Letters That Changed Your Life – Or Didn’t

As part of our ongoing series on the value of letter-writing, we asked you to tell us about letters that have brought bad news – and whether those letters changed your life. We heard stories of jobs that never materialized – and wives who did instead – and consider famous rejections sent and received by […]

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