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  "thread": {
    "id": 5586,
    "subject": "TSH: Ted's wet whatever",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2010-04-21T01:52:35+00:00",
    "last": "2010-04-21T01:52:35+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<00c401cae0f5$5469a720$76d14a0c@rclackey>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2010-04-21T01:52:35+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) TSH: Ted's wet whatever",
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          "text": "I've thought about it. Two things come to mind. One possibility is that Ted\nleft behind a tear-stained copy (ghost copy?) of the first letter Doris\nwrote to Bax, the \"Dear John\" letter, which had been written on a sheet of\nTed's old stationery. (That is nothing, compared to giving your dead\nhusband's wedding band to another man.)\n\nA better possibility is that it was a blank sheet of his stationery. That\nis, she was telling the truth (maybe) about Ted wanting her to hook up with\nBax; his tears on it were his testimony. She added her tears to his and sent\nthe second, big-mistake letter, possibly even on the same sheet of paper\nleft by Ted, the dried tears bearing silent witness to her sincerity. Bax\nhad done something similar earlier, getting blood stains from the beating by\nIeuan on a letter to George.\n\nTrue, Ted didn't leave a note, exactly, but tears on a sheet of stationery\nwould say something.\n\n-Roy"
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