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TonyS🇺🇸
@TonySamBoat
Retired Tech Executive. Politically homeless. Not a “useful idiot”. Detroit, Montreal,Constantinople 🇺🇸🇬🇷🇨🇦#🟦
Michigan, USA Beigetreten Mart 2020
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In 1973, a 26-year-old English teacher in the United States threw three pages of a story into the bin. He thought it was terrible. He was done with it.
His wife pulled the pages out of the trash, smoothed them out, and read them.
That story became one of the bestselling novels in history.
At the time, Stephen King was living in a trailer in Maine with his wife Tabitha and two small children. He taught English at a private high school. She worked the second shift at Dunkin’ Donuts. He also worked summers at an industrial laundry and took extra jobs as a janitor and a gas pump attendant.
He could not afford his own typewriter. He used his wife’s, set up on a makeshift desk she had fitted between the washing machine and the dryer.
He had already written three novels. None of them were published. Then he started writing a story about a bullied teenage girl with supernatural powers. After three pages, he hated it. He felt he did not understand the character and could not make it work. He crumpled the pages and threw them away.
The next day, he came home from work and found Tabitha reading those pages. She had pulled them out of the bin, covered in cigarette ash, and sat down to read them.
“You’ve got something here,” she told him. “If you don’t know how teenage girls act, I’ll help you with that part. Just finish it.”
He finished it. The book was called Carrie. It was rejected by 30 publishers. Then one finally said yes.
They did not even own a telephone. When the publisher called to accept the book, Tabitha had to dress up the kids, walk to the neighbour’s house, and call Stephen at work. He said she had never called him at work before. When he picked up the phone, they were both out of breath.
The advance was $2,500. He used it to move his family out of the trailer. Carrie went on to sell over 1 million copies in its first year.
Stephen King has since published over 60 novels. More than 350 million copies sold worldwide. But none of it would have happened if Tabitha King had not pulled three crumpled pages out of a bin in their laundry room.
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@TonySamBoat @advmoreira_ue Ohhh. I might have to travel down there for that!
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米国 – NASAのアルテミスII宇宙ミッションは、人類初の月面着陸を記念するもので、2026年4月1日（水）22時24分（協定世界時、東部夏時間18時24分）にケネディ宇宙センターから打ち上げられます。
アポロ17号（1972年）以来となる有人月探査ミッション：4名の宇宙飛行士（ワイズマン、グローバー、コック、ハンセン（いずれもカナダ宇宙庁所属））が、オリオン宇宙船とSLSロケットの性能試験のため、10日間の月周回自由軌道飛行を行います。
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BREAKING 🚨: NASA says Artemis II is a 'GO' with zero technical issues reported ahead of Wednesday's historic Moon launch
FOUR ASTRONAUTS WILL FLY AROUND THE MOON FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1972
Liftoff set for April 1st!
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@TonySamBoat @JimmyLevendia Agreed. The travel time from FL to Maui, coupled with the time difference, made it unrealistic to keep that condo.
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Let’s see a photograph you took with the sun in it.
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Let's see a photograph you took with the sun in it ☀️
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@SMF904 @JimmyLevendia What’s good is 1 week in PR is doable, but for Maui at least 2-3 weeks because it’s far…no bad choice 😆
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@TonySamBoat I love PR! Different from Maui, of course. But beautiful all on its own.
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