Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have learned from them. But I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is. You don't have to have lived through an immense amount of agony and pain in order to relate to people who are suffering. I really care about what happens to people, and when I first began to read those letters, it was an eye-opener. I came from a very solid Midwestern Jewish home. You see, I led a very sheltered life. I had never seen a man hit his wife. I had never seen any drunkenness...
...think there's such a thing as serendipity. You have to be lucky. You have to be at the right place at the right time. But once you are lucky, you have to know what to do with your luck. And I knew what to do with my luck...
...Hesitated? I printed a letter on homosexuality the first year that I was writing the column, and the publisher in St. Joe, Mich., let us know that he was not running that column. He printed a box on Page One saying there would be no Ann Landers column today because she's dealing with a subject that we feel is not fit for a family newspaper. Of course, everybody in town ran to buy the Detroit Free Press to see what it was that Ann Landers was talking about that the paper wouldn't print...
...thousands of others do too." So I printed it. I discovered 15,000 did care. I like to hang it down the wall. Talk about a compulsion! If I'm a guest in a home and the paper is hung the other way, I'll change it. I know this is crazy, but we all have our areas of nuttiness...
...know, this sounds crazy, but no. Yet I work harder than anybody I know. Somehow I don't think of it as work, because I really love what I do. Also, the freedom of being able to make my own schedule is marvelous. Most people who work have to get up in the morning and go to an office or a store. If I want to sleep until 10 o'clock...