From: BrendaWriter@yahoo.com   
      
   Hmm. First paragraph of the novel I wrote this year:   
      
   Although his wife's palate was discriminating to a nicety, neither Jack   
   Wragsland nor Marilee cooked. Their virgin oven still had the   
   energy-saver stickers on the door, and Jack kept paperback poetry   
   anthologies inside. His breakfast reading goal was to catch up on all   
   the verse he had missed by traveling almost 170 years into the future.   
      
   Clearly it meets the rule.   
      
   First paragraph of the novel I wrote last year:   
      
     Calla did not need to look at her phone while texting, so she actually   
   saw it happen.  One moment the road in front of the car was more or less   
   clear, except for Ponpet’s standard killer gridlock. The monumental   
   stone triumphal arch commemorating her grandfather dominated the traffic   
   circle they were stuck in.   
     Then, flicking into existence like the special effect in a movie, was   
   a totally odd man.  In a long black coat and tall hat, he looked   
   something like the young Abraham Lincoln.   
      
      
   Brenda   
      
   Brenda   
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)