This is what I call a personalized rejection. I mean, the editor LOVED so much about the submitted poems, and they even made it to the "second cut." But ultimately it's a no go. It makes you see how random it is when you get this close.
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Radek
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I've been close myself but not enough to feel the sun!
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I've been close myself but not enough to feel the sun!
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Good they made it passed the first round. Too bad the editor past on them.
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