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I love how that grew out of King’s own quitting. I can’t find this anywhere online, but in either the foreword or the afterword of a collection in which the story is published, King relates how he and Tabby were so broke at the time (he described the struggle as being akin to the Bataan Death March, and I don’t doubt…