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URBANNA — Four decades of writing One Woman’s Opinion columns provided many lessons about both writing and life. One lesson learned almost immediately is if one wanted to write opinion, fine, but he couldn’t just choose the easy soft issues like preferring chocolate over vanilla or that children ought to be taught good manners.
As pleasant as such cream puff subjects might be to write, such writing would be a colossal waste of time. Who needs more inane writing in the media today?



