My friend, Mark Mykleby, who works in the Pentagon, Shared with me this personal letter to the editor he got published last week in his hometown paper, the Beaufort Gazette in South Carolina.

我的朋友马克·迈克莱伯在国防部工作，他与我分享了这封私信。这封私信交给了编辑并于上周登在了他家乡的《南卡罗纳州博福特公报》上。

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When she was 11, she applied for a paper route in her hometown of Santa Barbara, California. "My dad showed me the newspaper AD, which said, 'Are you the boy for the job?"'

11岁时，在家乡加州Santa Barbara，她申请当邮递员：“我爸爸给我看了报纸上的广告，广告上写到你是能做这工作的男孩么？”

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My vision for the future of my hometown paper was one where our stories were read in Los Angeles and around the world, on every platform, by anyone who had an interest.

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And certainly from the point of view of my paper in my hometown, it will be one of the major focuses of our work for who knows how long to come.

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