>Grady,
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>I still enjoyed your proza, but I am also less enthousiastic meanwhile. This is plagiary, at least you should have had the decensy to inform us where you had C&P-td this piece.
>Sorry I can't revoke my previous posting.
Grady didn't say, or even imply, that he wrote it. "The following is an open letter to Dr. Laura penned by a east coast resident, which was posted on the Internet. ..."
Sure, he didn't say where he found the posting, but in any case, plagarism would be if he said he wrote it.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)