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Anonymous  #204171  Wed, 08 Mar 06 12:34 AM
Dear readers:

I was texting my friend a message yesterday and it came out like:
A lady at a bookstore hung up on me five times today. So I drove all the way to talk with her. It turns out they had been scammed by someone using relay months ago. So I taught her what to do when getting a strange relay call. Explained differences between IP-relay, state relay etc. Because she's the manager, she notified all bookstores in the region to be conscious of deaf people using relay. This will help deaf here a lot with relay calls to Waldenbooks or Borders bookstores.
For some reason I feel like the sentences start/end abruptly, resulting in a bumpy read. I noticed a reduntant usage of "So" in "So I drove" and "So I taught". Furthermore, something feels erronous about the transition. Example: "Because she's the manager" is usually grammatically unacceptable in English courses because of the word "Because" at the beginning of the sentence.

What can I do with my paragraph/sentence style and structure to make it more condensed and flow more efficiently?
  
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Clive  #204194  Wed, 08 Mar 06 02:00 AM

Hi,

A lady at a bookstore hung up on me five times today. So I drove all the way to talk with her. It turns out they had been scammed by someone using relay months ago. So I taught her what to do when getting a strange relay call. Explained differences between IP-relay, state relay etc. Because she's the manager, she notified all bookstores in the region to be conscious of deaf people using relay. This will help deaf here a lot with relay calls to Waldenbooks or Borders bookstores.

For some reason I feel like the sentences start/end abruptly,Yes.  resulting in a bumpy read. I noticed a reduntant usage of "So" in "So I drove" and "So I taught".Yes Furthermore, something feels erronous about the transition.Yes Example: "Because she's the manager" is usuallyNot always grammatically unacceptable in English courses because of the word "Because" at the beginning of the sentence.

What can I do with my paragraph/sentence style and structure to make it more condensed and flow more efficiently? Here's my try.

A lady at a bookstore hung up on me five times today, so I drove all the way to talk with her. It turns out they had been scammed by someone using relay(I don't know this term, I guess it's OK)  months ago, so I taught her what to do when getting a strange relay call. I explained the differences between IP-relay, state relay etc.

She was the manager, so she notified all the bookstores in the region to be careful about deaf people using relay. I hope this outcome will help deaf people here a lot with their relay calls to Waldenbooks or Borders bookstores.

Best wishes, Clive

  
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Anonymous  #204528  Thu, 09 Mar 06 05:08 AM
Revision noted...thanks for your time.
  
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