Rejection, it turns out, is tiered. The difference between a standard rejection and a tiered rejection is encouragement.
Many, many years ago, I submitted a poem to the New Yorker. I got a rejection slip. Oddly, there was a short hand-written addition: the word Sorry. I took it to be an example of New Yorker humor. I used to carry it in my wallet. Decades later I learned that it was probably a word of encouragement.
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