REAL SIMPLE’s annual Life Lessons Essay Contest
Submit a very brief essay on the topic:
When did you first realize that you had become a grown-up?
The winning essay is scheduled to appear in the April 2010 issue of REAL SIMPLE magazine. Winner will receive a $3,000 prize; rountrip tickets for two to New York City, hotel accommodations for two nights, and tickets to a Broadway play; and lunch with REAL SIMPLE editors.
Deadline: Sept. 7, 2009. For complete contest rules,


I have had my essay ready for a month but my husband did not get it postmarked in time and the 7th. is Labor Day. We have been in an automobile accidint (we were not cited).next time I will not depend on him again. So I am begging you to let submit my begging you to let me submit my essay on this eighth day of september. You will not regret it.
Sincerely,
Twila R. Nash