What Was Lost, Has Been Found

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In a post yesterday regarding Whole30, I mentioned I lost two manuscripts on my hard drive. I did. However, they were not completely lost. Last night after I went to bed, my thoughts were still on Scarred and Freedom's Cry, when I had a thought that they might still be somewhere on the computer, specifically in Drive. I went to the computer, turned it on, and yes, found both manuscripts in Drive. Scarred is not the current version it was printed in, but the messed up version the Editors had sent back to me when I fired them, while I was working on Freedom's Cry. When I say messed up, it is totally messed up. What was 496 pages, became 881 pages. I've been working with it this morning to get it into some semblance of decency. It's going to take a while. I did in the meantime, find several other chapters I had sent to a friend who helped me with the final edit of Scarred. Those were in my gmail. I copy and pasted those chapters into the document so I wouldn't have as much cleanup to do with what the editors sent me. While trying to find an easy way to get it copy and pasted, I found it and what had taken several hours, surrounded by my trip to the pool this morning, took less than a few seconds to get the rest of the document copied to my hard drive. I then used the same method to get Freedom's Cry back on my hard drive. Freedom's Cry is the version before the changes were made. Since I know where to start fixing that version, it won't take as long as Scarred will. Last night as I was teaching my friend from church, there was a point I was making in the lesson that was in Freedom's Cry. It was then I found both manuscripts weren't on my computer. At least now I have them, and I can get them taken care of so they'll be right, the way they were published. Have you lost anything and when you found it, it wasn't what you expected? Someone had made changes to the item? Thanks for reading. Picture is mine - Book cover for Scarred