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  "thread": {
    "id": 71,
    "subject": "Happy birthday, Gene Wolfe",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2010-05-07T05:17:24+00:00",
    "last": "2010-05-07T15:51:30+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<bc1d1a82-40d6-4683-bbf5-6156bba0d6fe@37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jerry Friedman",
        "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-05-07T05:17:24+00:00",
      "subject": "Happy birthday, Gene Wolfe",
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          "text": "It's Gene Wolfe's 79th birthday, which seems like a good time to post\na link to a poem I wrote that includes Wolfean themes.  I add my best\nwishes for improved health for Mr. Wolfe.\n\nhttp://home.windstream.net/jerryfriedman/pilgrim1.html\n\nCandid but preferably not sarcastic comments are welcome.\n\nI'm posting this to a.u.e as well as rasfw because I asked some\nquestions for the poem at a.u.e."
        },
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          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Jerry Friedman"
        }
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<hs1ctu$vql$1@news.eternal-september.org>",
      "from": {
        "name": "CDB",
        "address": "bellemarec at sympatico.ca"
      },
      "date": "2010-05-07T15:51:30+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Happy birthday, Gene Wolfe",
      "in_reply_to": "<bc1d1a82-40d6-4683-bbf5-6156bba0d6fe@37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>",
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          "text": "Jerry Friedman wrote:\n\nIt's Gene Wolfe's 79th birthday, which seems like a good time to\npost a link to a poem I wrote that includes Wolfean themes.  I add\nmy best wishes for improved health for Mr. Wolfe.\n\nhttp://home.windstream.net/jerryfriedman/pilgrim1.html\n\nCandid but preferably not sarcastic comments are welcome.\n\nI'm posting this to a.u.e as well as rasfw because I asked some\nquestions for the poem at a.u.e."
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          "text": "I think it works very well.  It's a poem you have to spend some time \nwith, and the notes are a big help, NTTAWWT."
        },
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          "text": "I have visited a couple of the poetry groups, and I think I understand \nwhy you haven't posted there.  They seem to be dominated, and I do \nmean that, by a small number of posters.  Do rasfwers regularly do \npoetrycrit?  I ask because the poem doesn't strike me as primarily \nscience-fictional -- but maybe I'm missing stuff; a word might be \nsufficient (\"dur\"), to start me looking further.  Or maybe rereading \nTBOTNS."
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