Prep or prep not. There is no question.

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Regards,
Eric Fretheim

"It is perfectly okay to write garbage-- as long as you edit brilliantly." ~C.J. Cherryh

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." ~Winston Churchill

"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket." ~Ernest Hemingway