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Here’ s what he wrote: ——Dear Harlan: You know the old saying, “ Once bitten, twice shy?” Well, I got a new one for you. There are many more anecdotes and horrors I’ ve been askednot to pass along. The problem was in his hands, and it was an increasingly worrisomeproblem. contracted syphilis the week before, though she didn’ t know it; and within ayear she would have been unable, by

” “Buying some comics?” “Uh-huh. I filled their trays, reinserted them in the freezercompartment, and went back outside. “Go back where you comefrom, you mammy-jammin’ nigger-lovin’ sonsabitches. He opened the slit and a small boy in a pullover sweater and tie thrust his head and shouldersinto the night.