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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhimsyTheFae" data-source="post: 3756382" data-attributes="member: 8964">First, I have to give a hearty congratulations to Avatar V.  I also felt that your story was the stronger of the two and deserved to win.Second, while I am glad to finally be out of the competition, I am also glad that I stuck with it and tried my hardest to win.  It is true, that I did not enjoy the writing and the competition was more work that I would have liked.  I felt this way after my first CDM, this spring, but I convinced myself to give it another go and see if I would improve and/or enjoy the experience more.  I do feel that I improved, but I did not enjoy myself, which caused the first two rounds to leave a bittersweet taste in my mouth.  I was rooting against myself, because I wanted out.  But, like Ricky Bobby's French adversary, I wasn't going to just throw a match (granted, the French guy possessed much more racing skill than I do writing skill, but you get the point).  I hope that I acquitted myself well.Third, I would like to thank the judges (both from the spring and summer competitions), for they have given good advice that has helped me to both improve my writing and recognize weaknesses that still exist.Finally, Rodrigo, I will give some serious consideration to writing something recreationally and see how I feel about it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Good luck to the finalists.</blockquote>

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