Today I received an e-mail I've been expecting for about six weeks now.<\/p>\n
It's from a reader of “Make-Believe.”<\/p>\n
The story hit close to home for him. He lost his brother-in-law in Iraq.<\/p>\n
The characters, the emotions rang true, he wrote. He said he was touched.<\/p>\n
I've written back to everyone that's written me about the story, over a hundred people thus far. I'm going to write this correspondent back as well. Not tonight–I need to sleep on it, decide what<\/i> to write.<\/p>\n
It rang true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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