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Dear Clarice...
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I've followed with enthusiasm the course
of your disgrace and public shaming.
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My own never bothered me
except for the inconvenience...
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of being incarcerated.
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But you may lack perspective.
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In our discussions
down in the dungeon...
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it was apparent to me that your father,
the dead night watchman...
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figures largely
in your value system.
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I think your success in putting an end
to Jame Gumb's career as a couturier...
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pleased you most because you could
imagine your father being pleased.
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But now, alas,
you're in bad odour with the FBI.
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Do you imagine your daddy
being shamed by your disgrace?
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Do you see him
in his plain pine box...
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crushed by your failure...
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the sorry, petty end
of a promising career?
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What is worst
about this humiliation, Clarice?
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Is it how your failure will reflect
on your mommy and daddy?
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Is your worst fear that people
will now and forever believe...
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they were indeed a just good old
trailer-camp...
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tornado-bait white trash...
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and that perhaps you are too?
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By the way, I couldn't help noticing
on the FBI's rather dull web site...
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that I've been hoisted from the Bureau's
archives of the common criminal...
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and elevated to the more prestigious
Ten Most Wanted List.
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Is this coincidence,
or are you back on the case?
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If so, goody goody, because
I need to come out of retirement...
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and return to public life.
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I imagine you sitting
in a dark basement room...