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The first Letters of Note blog header, September 2009. I wrote “Letters of Note” approximately fifty times, and this one was the least terrible.

Precisely fifteen years ago, in September of 2009, I hit “PUBLISH” on the first ever Letters of Note blog post: a rejection letter from Disney to a young, aspiring animator who was being told to aim for a less c…