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From: Steven Lavallee <>
Subject: ??? (was Re: The descendants of Jean Baptiste Bernadotte)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 07:57:23 -0400


Marlene writes:

>You are assuming I am making money! Writers do want to make money. I
>could not live off what I earn as a writer. Most writers don't.
>
>One does not need the Internet to do research, Frank. I wrote two editions
>of QVD without it.
>
>However, there will be shortly a website that will host the real QVD!
>
>I did not qualify for a student loan when I was an underground because my
>parents made too much money. Thankfully, my parents had set up a bank
>account when I was a child for college tuition. But that money did not
>cover books (and books are expensive, especially with three majors),
>transportation (and as I did not know how to drive at the time, I had to
>take two buses to get to college, and it took several hours each day even
>though the college was about a 20 minute drive), plus work at a job in a
>shopping mall, and and work in the school library go toward my tuition and
>other expenses.
>
>I did get a student loan to pay for tuition and everything else for my
>master's, and I had ten years after graduation to pay it off. Not only did
>I have a student loan, I worked part time in a bookstore and also
>substitute taught at two local high schools when I was earning my master's.



Yikes.



Steven Lavallee
Providence, Rhode Island

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