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I do not know why I felt it my obligation to safeguard the reputation of the world greatest poet, at least next to Homer and Shakespeare, or to inscribe an apologia for Irish writing. I just knew that I had to write that letter, in the same way a priest has to pray by the Atlantica online Gold, or a musician has to play an instrument.
Until that point in my life I had not written much of value, a few poems and short stories, the beginning of a coming-of-age novel. I knew that my writing was anything but refined. Like a beginning artist who loves to draw, I understood that the more one draws, or writes, or does anything, the better the end result will be, and so I wrote often to better control my writing skills, to master them. I sent some material like the Atlantica Gold to various magazines and reviews but found no one willing to publish me.
It was a special and unexpected delight, then, when I learned something I had written would finally see print. Ironically it was not one of my poems or short stories. It was my letter to the Times. I suppose the editor decided to buy Atlantica online gold to publish it because he was first attracted by the official nature of my stationery (was his staff taking smoke breaks out on the fire escape?), and then by the incongruity of a ghetto firefighter using words like messianism, for in the lines below my letter it was announced that I was a New York City firefighter. I would like to think, though, that the editor silently agreed with my thesis.
I had received a letter from True magazine and one from The New Yorker, asking for an interview and would pay me Atlantica online money. It was the latter that proved momentous, for when an article titled Fireman Smith appeared in that magazine, I received a telephone call from the editor of a large publishing firm who asked if I might be interested in writing a book about my life with cheap Atlantica online Gold at that time.
I had little confidence in my ability to write a whole book, though I did intuit that my work as a firefighter was a worthy subject. And so I wrote report in six months, and it went on to sell two million copies and to be translated into 12 languages. In the years that followed, I wrote three more best-sellers, and last year published a memoir, A Song for Mary: An Irish-American Memory.
