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Ahh, the wonders of free speech.  I am only an American citizen because my great-great grandfather was murdered in Russia for being a rabbi, and my thirteen year old great grandfather had to flee here.  I am third generation American and I love my country, but I will never understand people’s obsession (compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea) that such humor should be accepted by all.  Why make racist jokes on Facebook where people you call your friends will feel threatened?

I am writing you to request a book review for our upcoming novella, [title redacted]. The market is for anyone who enjoys literature and also for the 18-24 year old audience. It is Poetic Fiction, which is a new type of writing that combines both poetry and prose. The novella will also be marketed as Hipster Fiction, attracting the new, social wave that goes by “Hipsters.” We know that it will appeal to Hipsters because the writer is only twenty-three years old (a Hipster himself), uses modern colloquialisms, and the back cover synopsis, we are confident, will allure these readers along with the literary crowd.
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