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It is best not to write your story off the top of your head. We suggest you write your story on your own word processor, run it through your spell checker, reread it over several times for errors, and rewrite it until you and your best critic think it is perfect. Then you can copy/paste it into our Storystar story writing text box. But please do not paste anything into our story posting form except for just plain text with no html code, bolding, underlining, pictures, etc....

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1951
Wilmington NC
United States
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Wilmington NC
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