She submitted her 2nd letter to the editor on Monday, and was SO excited when she opened the newspaper today to find her letter in it! For over 1000 entries to the paper, I'd say getting one in on her second try is pretty good! Now she has to wait a month, and is going to try to go straight to the huge papers. We'll see how that goes! Anyway, for the 13th largest paper in the US, I'd say this is a good sign! I think the main thing she was happy about was that she beat out lots of people at least 2 times her age!
