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  "thread": {
    "id": 5051,
    "subject": "budrys",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2008-06-11T02:51:23+00:00",
    "last": "2008-06-11T03:23:36+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<63705.72394.qm@web58210.mail.re3.yahoo.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Aramini",
        "address": "marcaramini at yahoo.com"
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      "date": "2008-06-11T02:51:23+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) budrys",
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          "text": "I am something of an obituary watcher.  Algis Budrys appears to have passed away, born in 1931.  I get a bit depressed when I think that Clarke, Lafferty, Butler, Knight, Williamson, and others have so recently passed. sigh\n\n\n      "
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      ]
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    {
      "message_id": "<484F4538.3010208@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
      },
      "date": "2008-06-11T03:23:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) budrys",
      "in_reply_to": "<63705.72394.qm@web58210.mail.re3.yahoo.com>",
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          "text": "Marc Aramini wrote:\nI am something of an obituary watcher.  Algis Budrys appears to have\npassed away, born in 1931.  I get a bit depressed when I think that\nClarke, Lafferty, Butler, Knight, Williamson, and others have so\nrecently passed. sigh"
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        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "\tOther than Butler, they'd all outlived the majority of their peers \noutside the field, and were fortunate to have had long, productive lives \nbeyond what was expected in the times and places they were born. Rather \nthan let their end depress us, let us consider that each one's greater \nstory is now complete, and be cheered that it rose above the common lot \nas we each fancy our efforts might."
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\n< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >"
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