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  "thread": {
    "id": 218,
    "subject": "FREE LIVE FREE (spoilers)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-09-30T15:19:05+00:00",
    "last": "1997-09-30T15:19:05+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0004-0327@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "adam louis stephanides",
        "address": "astephan at students.uiuc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-09-30T15:19:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) FREE LIVE FREE (spoilers)",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "This is the first time I've posted to this list, but I've\nenjoyed lurking a lot.  As long as FLF is being discussed, \nI'll repeat some questions I posted to rasfw a year ago and \nnever got answers to (although it being that long since I\nlast read the book, the answers may not mean much to\nme now):\n\n1) Why are there two Whittens (in addition to \"Ben Free\")\nin 1983?  The younger Whitten (the man in the duffle coat)\nis there on his second trip with the gizmo for the government.\nWhat is the older Whitten doing there?\n\n2) When \"Ben Free\" reappears on January 14, 1983, where did\nhe come from?  He didn't come from the frontier, because he\nleft the frontier for the last time before he hid the gizmo\nin the wall, and that was presumably before January 14, 1983.\n\n3) A minor point, but in Chapter 52 the witch tells the others\nthat \"Today I defrauded a certain one, the namesake of one who\npossesses much authority, below.\"  Is there a demon named\nMcAlister?  Or is there some joke regarding McAlister's first\nname (which I don't remember ever being stated) which I missed?\nOr did she defraud somebody else that day?  (Actually I vaguely\nrecall getting an answer to this one, but I don't remember\nwhat it was, and I don't think I was satisfied by it.)\n\n--Adam"
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