{"id":514,"date":"2007-12-24T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=514"},"modified":"2007-12-24T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T21:36:00","slug":"i-think-alfred-doesnt-love-me-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/i-think-alfred-doesnt-love-me-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"I think Alfred doesn&#8217;t love me anymore&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:03:09 +0030<br \/>Subject: Re: thanks<br \/>To: Alfred Koffi &lt;alfred.koffi@yahoo.co.uk&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Please, Alfred&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What&#39;s happening with our deal?<\/p>\n<p>Dude&#8230; Be reasonable! It&#39;s Christmas! I could absolutely USE a couple<br \/>of million US dollars.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to check&#8230; We are talking about United States dollars,<br \/>aren&#39;t we? Cos I&#39;d be reluctant if we were talking about Zimbabwe<br \/>dollars. Apparently it costs about five million Zim dollars to buy a<br \/>bar of soap!<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m really not saying I need soap. Seriously&#8230; Please don&#39;t get me<br \/>wrong. I HAVE soap! My brother gave me some soap-on-a-rope last<br \/>Christmas. And I&#39;ve never used it. It looks so good.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve often wondered why my brother would even give me ANY present<br \/>whatsoever for Christmas. Since we&#39;re half-Jewish, we tend not to<br \/>celebrate Christmas. We accept gifts, of course. It would be stupid<br \/>not to. But I&#39;ve never given him a Christmas present in my life. So<br \/>why the hell would he give ME one? And why soap-on-a-rope? It doesn&#39;t<br \/>make sense.<\/p>\n<p>Please send me details about how we can proceed to make money together.<\/p>\n<p>Your continued silence is VERY disturbing to me. In fact, it makes me<br \/>think that someone might have killed you. Please give me some sort of<br \/>sign that you&#39;re alive, and that we can proceed, and that it&#39;s US<br \/>dollars, and that my percentage split is safe, and that I&#39;m going to<br \/>be able to score some serious serious serious cash before the new year<br \/>starts.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred&#8230; Are you for real?<\/p>\n<p>Blue skies, love, Roy<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:03:09 +0030Subject: Re: thanksTo: Alfred Koffi &lt;alfred.koffi@yahoo.co.uk&gt; Please, Alfred&#8230; What&#39;s happening with our deal? Dude&#8230; Be reasonable! It&#39;s Christmas! I could absolutely USE a coupleof million US dollars. 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