From: kevin_c75@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sunday, September 21, 2014 1:23:54 PM UTC-4, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
   > I expect that the first rewrite was the completely different   
   >   
   > version that allowed Kevin to ditch the first three   
   >   
   > versions; that could certainly reduce the length by half.   
   >   
   > Correcting typos and continuity problems and clunky text   
   >   
   > could account for a thousand words, mostly from the repair   
   >   
   > of clunky text.   
      
   Yes. I did another rewrite where I changed the ending and punched up the   
   action, but it trimmed too much. Now I've got to carefully add back some of   
   what I deleted.   
      
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