Hmmm, Mary Schmich seems to have taken my blog post on the subject of Hillary's 19 year old letters and made a column out of it. I have noticed a frequent Tribune domain visitor to my site of late, could it be?
Letter writers beware: Words may haunt you:
In one of her poems, the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska refers to dropping letters in the mail as “a whim of foolish youth.”
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According to the story, John Peavoy, who now teaches at Scripps College in California, first shared Hillary's letters with the author Gail Sheehy. After that, Clinton, with whom he has had little contact since they were collegiate pen pals, wrote him and asked for copies.“For all I know,” the Times quotes Peavoy as saying, “she's mad at me for keeping the letters.”
Keeping the letters is not likely to be the kind of thing that would make the letter-writer mad. That could be construed as a compliment.
The problem is sharing them with strangers. That's more like a taunt.
Note, I'm (mostly) kidding, odds are Ms. Schmich just had the same reaction to the original story as me, and wrote about it. Her column just took a week to be printed (July 30 vs. Aug 5th).
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