Re: JD

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Vonnegut actually wrote you? As in not just some junk
letter from his publicist but an actual letter with
ink and all from Vonnegut? How long did it take before
you got a reply? I'm so jealous. JD wrote you back?
What address? You must tell me. Haha. 18 year old
girl? Joyce Maynard and JD, I still can't believe
that. Never read her book. Whatever.

> It's very ... strange ... to hold in your hand a
> letter from someone 
> you admire and to figure out how it got to you.  I
> swapped several 
> letters with Kurt Vonnegut a couple of years back,
> and had one reply 
> from Salinger on a matter completely unrelated to
> Vonnegut, something 
> I treasure and cherish and all that, and wouldn't
> sell if I were down 
> to my last pair of shoes.  (And no, I didn't make my
> Salinger 
> envelope look as if it had been written by an
> 18-year-old girl, so 
> get that look out of your eye, you in the corner! 
> 8-)  I'm not an 
> autograph collector; I just write a lot of letters,
> some of which are 
> between me and other writers or people in the
> creative business.

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