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  • Rossandra: Thanks so much for your comment.  You nailed what it's all about: at the end of the day, writing is a life-altering process.We're not going to inspire others if what we writ...
  • ...there naked and vulnerable like that. I'm still freaking, but not so much. Will it inspire others? I don't know, all I know is that it was a life-altering process, all of it.
  • ...early 70's, when busing was new and race riots were raging. Police patrolled the halls, but mass fights still broke out regularly. It was a world-altering shock to learn first hand som...
  • ...nk you for such an inspiring post. For as much writing as I have done over the past twelve years or more, the many workshops I've taken, the life altering changes I've made to allow mo...
  • I think it's dumb or maybe just misguided. We can't change history by altering our books.  People need to know that it was the culture of the times.  Remember how Christopher Columbus...
  • ...argely through text books that are written for the express purpose of teaching those lies. What we're talking about here is with Twain's work, is altering a classic piece of literature...
  • ...Hemmings, his wife's half sister and fathering seven children by her.  Altering Twain is a small part of the...grade on.  I doubt if any of you making these indignant comments about altering Twain have ever addressed the...
  • Altering "Huckleberry Finn" is wrong. And stupid. For all the reasons Cynthia, Marcia, Sarah-Jane, and others list. But that's just me; a donkey, a chowder-head, a lace-curtain but more often shanty, Irish American doll, chippy, broad, lady, chick, b*tch, whore, slut . . . you get the idea.