Original sentence: " "Why don’t you use a plain initial letter, then." He suggested that we get a newspaper and pick a name from the first list of notables that we found in it." asked my friend."Good," said I, "O is about the easiest letter written, and O it is."Here we have our notables," said he."Now for a first name.I said to a friend: "I'm going to send out some stuff.I want something short.In a 1909 New York Times interview, Porter told a different version of the origin of "O.In the society columns we found the account of a fashionable ball.It was during these New Orleans days that I adopted my pen name of O.None of your three-syllable names for me.We looked down the list and my eye lighted on the name Henry, "That'll do for a last name," said I
Edited sentence: "It was during the days in New Orleans that I adopted my pen name of O.' 'Why don't you use a plain inital letter then.' asked my friend.' said I.'Here we have our notables' said he.'Now for a first name> I want something short.Good said I.He suggested that we get a newspaper and pick a name from the first list of notables that we found in it.Henry as a pseudonym.I said to a friend: I'm going to send out some stuff.In the society collumns we found the account of a fashionable ball.None of your three-sylable names for me.O is the easiest letter written and O it is.Porter did infact explain how he came up with O.We looked down the list and my eye lighted on the name Henry, 'That'll do for a last name.While these are all good stories, none of them are true