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March 2, 2005 |

Dear Mr. Garrison,
Currently we are reading Lake Wobegon Days in our American Literature class at Carthage College (Kenosha, WI). First of all, I think that it is a great accomplishment to publish a book, let alone a book included on the reading list of an intuition of higher learning. If you could say one thing to the young adults currently reading your book, what would it be?

Lisa Sullivan

Lisa, my advice to them would be to skip the first fifty pages or so and to look up the long footnote and read that.

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