Don't worry about growing up - by Shaun Usher

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F. Scott Fitzgerald writes to his daughter

I’ve chosen to send you the following letter because my wife gave birth this morning—it’s our third child but first girl, and both Karina and our daughter are doing really well after a long and stressful day and I am in awe of them both—and as the big moment approached, usually during long, bemasked periods of contemplation in hospital waiting rooms, I sometimes found myself imagining the kind of letters I might one day send to her. And those thoughts often led to this. When he wasn’t busy writing some of the most critically lauded and enduring novels of the 20th Century, The Great Gatsby…

Don't worry about growing up - by Shaun Usher

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