Date:         Sun, 22 Mar 1998 22:39:57 EST
From: Just me and my altered ego <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      EXERCISE: The ending is...

It has been a while since we did one of these, so let me explain.  I'm
going to provide a final paragraph (selected from those quirky little
stories in Reader's Digest).  Your assignment, should you choose to
accept it, is to write a story leading up to this paragraph.

Sounds simple enough, right?

Okay, here is the ending:

        An envelope from the doctor arrived a few days later.  The
couple made a special evening of it and dined at their favorite
restaurant.  Finally they opened the letter.  It was the doctor's
bill.

(from Reader's Digest, May 1993, p. 10)

That is the ending.  Now, all you need to do is dream up a beginning
and a middle...eventually arriving at this final paragraph.

write!
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