I was appalled. La Rae did invent letters for her column when the real ones were dull. Once in a while she even let me write one. “You can’t use this,” I said now. “It’s my life!”
“Relax, Paulie,” she said. “The names will be changed to protect the innocent—and the guilty. I’ll make it cancer of the you-know-what the husband gets, just when the wife is planning to cut it off to teach him a lesson.”
“You’re terrible,” I said. “You’re crazy,” and then I started laughing.
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