On Thanksgiving Day 1999, five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, was found off the coast of Florida.

And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba?

Mr. Gonzales wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him.

Or stay with his relatives in Miami.

Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom.

Listen to Shess Peace, the Eelian Gonzalez story on the I-Heart

radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to keep great pieces of work you produce, even if you don't end up using the work in the way you thought you would.

What's on the cutting room floor today might be just what you want in the

future. Today's tip like another this week comes from my interview with Mary Laura Philpot for my other

podcast Best of Both Worlds. Mary Laura is a writer best known for her memoirs

I miss you when I blink and bomb shelter.

In our conversation about her writing and editing process,

Mary Laura told me that she saves everything she writes.

Rather than saving one draft over the next,

she archives past drafts.

That way, if she decides that she likes how she structured a narrative better

in an earlier draft than the latest draft.

She can easily restore the earlier text to her piece.

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