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[bubosquared]

Subject:  Rewritten story
Date:  Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:33:54 -0000
From:  <addy deleted> (Jo, you want me to give you her addy so you can contact her yourself?)
To:  minerva@femgeeks.net

Hi Melle (hope I can still call you that),

I'm sorry that you felt so offended by my posting of the rewritten 
story. That was definitely not my intention. Neither to you, nor to 
Cassandra. :( I've seen it more as some sort of praise of her work, 
because I really liked her story. I'm also a writer (right now I'm 
busy to translate one of my longer stories into English), but slash 
fiction is a new topic to me, so I thought this "rewriting" might be a 
first step to get into this way of writing and to do an original one 
day. I definitely know that stories are something very personal and 
somehow private, and I absolutely didn't want to take that away from 
Cassandra. I don't think that *I* would feel offended as an author if 
anybody rewrote my story and gave me credits (as long as it would be 
only used on a list like this one). I'd only feel offended if someone 
really "stole" my story or my ideas and claimed that they were from 
him- or herself. But of course everybody might feel about that 
differently.

Anyway I've asked the moderator to delete it from the archive because 
I don't think that I'll be able to contact Cassandra with my bloody 
old e-mail account (as I wrote to the list I've already tried it 
*before* posting the story). And I don't want to offend any future 
members of this list.

By the way, I still love *your* stories. And don't worry, I see no 
need to rewrite one of *them* because I think they are perfect as they 
are. ;) There's no offence intended in this, I really love your 
stories. You're one of the authers who actually got me into this and 
made me think of doing an original myself one day, too.

All the best

Chris

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Thank you. :)