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Submitted by Tom Vradenburg on February 23, 2021, at 9:40

"The clouds wept all night" was darned good for primary school: you should have been given a gold star, not a scolding.
You remind us that creative writing can be therapeutic. I have lost sight of that, spending my working hours trying to coach people writing non-fiction, trying to get them close to something as crystalline as "the clouds wept all night."
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