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  "thread": {
    "id": 1044,
    "subject": "Silk for President!",
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    "first": "2000-11-27T19:49:08+00:00",
    "last": "2000-11-27T19:49:08+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0032@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin J. Maroney",
        "address": "kmaroney at ungames.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-11-27T19:49:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Silk for President!",
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          "text": "I currently have a cold, possibly with a minor fever, and my troubled\ndreams kept trying to convince me that there are coded messages in _The\nBook of the Short Sun_ which will reveal who will, in the long run, win the\n2000 presidential election. \n\nAlas, I can't remember any of the codes, but I did come away with one key\ninsight: Bush is a plant, and Gore is an animal byproduct. So is this a\nbattle of the sexes?"
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          "text": "   Kevin Maroney | Unplugged Games \n   kmaroney at ungames.com | (212) 777-1190\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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