"Dear English teacher, you'll be happy to know that I take a lot more trouble with my writing now that I'm a pornographer."

I want to say something like this to my high school English teacher. I hated everything we read my senior year, mainly because I was violently opposed to searching for hidden meanings in everything I read; it's only through reading and writing slash - and having contact with fans who plumb subtext for fun and make their own on a daily basis - that I've come to appreciate what she was trying to teach us.

Come to think of it, my two creative writing instructors from before I got into slash could probably stand apologies, too...