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My Snarky Fan Mail Response from Author David Sedaris
I wrote a letter to David Sedaris, and he replied
I’m a fan of the author David Sedaris. Not in the he-can-do-no-wrong kind of way, but in the way that his storytelling and humor bring a smile to my face. So, I’m just your regular fan.
As one might do, I got the idea to write him a fan letter one day. The only other fan letter I had written was to Jim Carrey in the early 2000s after reading an interview with him in Playboy Magazine. Several months after writing him, I received an autographed headshot in the mail signed, “Spank you very much, Jim Carrey.”
Back to David Sedaris. So my letter to him went as follows:
Dear Mr. Sedaris,
I’m writing to congratulate you on actualizing your tremendous talent. It might seem rather odd that I’m doing this now since you’ve been a successful, famous writer for over two decades. But I would imagine that there is no greater occupation on earth for someone with an aptitude for writing than that of a working writer.
So please keep up the good work until you’re at least ninety, will you? I thoroughly enjoy reading your stuff.
Oh, and I’ve written a thing or two in my day as well, such as the following poem:
