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This is a response to a fan letter that Ray Bradbury sent in 1991 and I just love it.

Now, Ray Bradbury, he's just this towering master of science fiction.

He wrote Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, innumerable short story.

So he's just a master of science fiction.

There's this wonderful image of this postcard that he sent back to a fan of his.

You have to picture this is on a bright yellow postcard that's covered with images of

science fiction.

You kind of like the nuclear future and it's typed like very badly on some old-fashioned

manual typewriter.

And this is what Ray Bradbury says.

Dear William Stanhope, most important decision I ever made came at age 9.

I was collecting Buck Rogers comic strips, 1929, when my fifth grade classmates made fun

of me.

I tore up the strips.

A week later, broken to tears.

Why was I crying?

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