An uncommon courtesy

I own and edit an online magazine for writers, The Cuckleburr Times. It never ceases to amaze me how rarely people say thanks when I inform them they’ve been selected for publication. It’s not that I expect them to turn somersaults or fawn all over me because I don’t. However I was brought up in a household where I constantly heard that “manners cost nothing.” And they don’t!

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