There was once a high school teacher who supplemented his income by writing short stories. He liked to teach, but he loved to write. He later wrote the first few pages of a story about a teenager with psychic powers and threw it in the trash. But his wife retrieved it and encouraged him to finish it. The teacher was Stephen King, and the story became his first published novel, "Carrie."
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