first prompt

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Dear Dr. XXXXXXXXX,

I wrote to
you several years
ago at your
Christian comm-
unity in N.Y. state
and you wrote
back to me. I
wrote back to
you and I

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might have
been too
strident,
emphasizing
your weak
points. If
I hurt
your feelings
I am sorry.
Mommy is dying

3
of ovarian cancer.
She is 95 (as
old as Arthur
Rubinstein!)

The energy
program which
you outline,
(no air condition-
ers . . . .) is
perhaps a bit
severe. Perhaps

4

I might argue,
as in ordering
Chinese food
in the past,
Can I have
one item from
column A, and
one item from
column B?

I do music
therapy:

5
I listen to
Arthur Rubinstein
on my portable
CD player.
I do writing
therapy: about
every other
day I write
my thoughts (2hrs)
with my right
hand and my

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left hand,
and then I
throw them
out. My
therapist
tells me this
gets rid of
mental garbage.
It helps me
cope about
mommy.
I have

6 1/2
started humor
therapy. I
got that from
Amos Oz. I
look at the
pictures of
Weird Florida
and Weird Cal-
ifornia; it
makes me
goofy. I am

7
thinking of a
pilgrimage to
Cabazon, Cal.
where the
dinosaurs
Rex and Dinny
are. Cabazon
is about 22
miles from
Palm Springs.

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I noticed
that on the
picture of your
new book
you hold out
your sinister
hand, with
the middle
finger outstretched.
Bye, Dr. XXXXX XXXXXXXX