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An Open Letter to My Anonymous Tipster

Yesterday I received in the mail a padded manila envelope containing nothing but an unlabeled CD. So I took it back to our I.T. guy and said, "Here, please infect your computer with this mysterious disc, because my MacBook Air doesn't have a CD drive." The disc turned out to be harmless -- at least to the computer. I'd like to address the person who sent it to me. Dear tipster, thank you for thinking of D Magazine. I spent about an hour yesterday reading through the hundreds of personal emails, going back several years, you were kind enough to send. I didn't read every single one. After the first 50 or so, I think I got a pretty good idea of what you wanted me to understand. I skimmed from that point. D Magazine is not inclined to publish information about a couple's messy divorce, even if that couple is a high-profile one. If there were a larger issue at stake, something in the public's interest, that would be a different matter. From what I gathered, this divorce doesn't come anywhere near meeting that standard. It's just a sad, ugly, very personal situation. I deleted the emails from the computer I used to read them. And I've thrown the CD in the trash. But there is something -- or some things -- you sent that I will make use of. The eight Forever stamps on the envelope weren't canceled. Those I will reuse. Cheers.
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Yesterday I received in the mail a padded manila envelope containing nothing but an unlabeled CD. So I took it back to our I.T. guy and said, “Here, please infect your computer with this mysterious disc, because my MacBook Air doesn’t have a CD drive.” The disc turned out to be harmless — at least to the computer. I’d like to address the person who sent it to me.

Dear tipster, thank you for thinking of D Magazine. I spent about an hour yesterday reading through the hundreds of personal emails, going back several years, you were kind enough to send. I didn’t read every single one. After the first 50 or so, I think I got a pretty good idea of what you wanted me to understand. I skimmed from that point.

D Magazine is not inclined to publish information about a couple’s messy divorce, even if that couple is a high-profile one. If there were a larger issue at stake, something in the public’s interest, that would be a different matter. From what I gathered, this divorce doesn’t come anywhere near meeting that standard. It’s just a sad, ugly, very personal situation. I deleted the emails from the computer I used to read them. And I’ve thrown the CD in the trash.

But there is something — or some things — you sent that I will make use of. The eight Forever stamps on the envelope weren’t canceled. Those I will reuse. Cheers.

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