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5 Tales of Calls for Help

Nury Vittachi
Nov 12, 2011
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A READER WHO will be unnamed out of kindness wrote to ask me for help:

“sir, i am a would-be writer..any valuable advice??”

I suggested the obvious: anyone applying to be a writer should at least compose a good letter.

The young South Asian man replied:

“wat r the flaws in my letter, anyways??”

I replied that he should at least spell words correctly when com…

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