Is 'Of course it can't be published because all those things are copyrighted, but my mother made up the story and I thought it was very nice and I still have it, uh, handwritten, uh, in our file here.' a fitting logical lead-up to 'My mother wanted to publish it before finding out it is copyrighted.'
Of course it can't be published because all those things are copyrighted, but my mother made up the story and I thought it was very nice and I still have it, uh, handwritten, uh, in our file here.###My mother wanted to publish it before finding out it is copyrighted.