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Sunshine fills the town. I'm wearing my favourite summer dress. The family wakes with the sun. Once 7, then 6, then 5:30 ...till husband's new schedule now has us rise before 5. We hardly see him. Rejections came this past week, 1...2...3... I keep typing. The words are piling up - 20,000, 30,000, 40,000....and then I take the shunned stories, rewrite, resubmit... We've been to the beach, had picnics, with little naked behinds sprayed green with suncream. We've found tiny starfish and had ser...