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likely to retain any positive or useful information. It is overwhelmed by the negative, accusatory and spiteful attitudes and feelings.

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Well, enough of that. I thought you might find it amusing ticularly those who found the book helpful. As I said, I'm not angry about it. My work of 20 years in this field (which is a heck of a lot longer than either Eve or Pudgy can point to) stands on its own merits. There is hardly any attitude, activity, terminology or philosophy of the subject that I did not either initiate, lay the ground work for or contribute to in some fundamental way. I'm proud of that. When the time comes for me to depart this mortal life I will be able to look back and know that I have touched a great many lives favorably, helpfully, and with love and understanding, and that is all that is important to me. The scoffers, critics, accusers and antagonists of one kind or another-and I've had my share-can make their little noises and recruit their little cliques around them, but until they can point to as much accomplishment as I can, I'm not really concerned. It's one's works that count, not one's vocalizations whether in speech or in print. So my good wishes go to Eve and to Pudgy and I hope that they will be able to do something more constructive with their lives than trying to shoot me down. I hope they can have some of the satisfactions that I can enjoy after 20 years of effort.

I am not interested in starting a series of polemics with either of these two people (or others), but since this will doubtless come to their attention one way or another, if they want to offer any short defense, explanation or commentary of their own that is capable of being written cooly and without resort to words like "horseshit" and the like, I am, in the interest of fairness, willing to print their reply in these pages in the following issue. Providing only that they are factual, constructive, explanatory and worthy of the space. And that's "30 for tonight."

Virginia ("Grandma" of it all)

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