030696 #squirrel #crow University of Florida read my manuscript and regrets to inform me they don't have a position for me in the MFA program this fall. Surely I understand they get so many blah blah blah. So I find myself, first pierced to the heart, then oddly cheerful, doubting my very essence, my very worth as a human being, and feeling at least by one infinitesimal glimmer more like a man for having applied.