Dear Jess,
I was very disappointed when I found out on Facebook that you had been dissing me in your blog. It was a shock that an experienced journalist such as yourself, did not take the time to fact check, and relied on gossipy rags for your information. Of course I was not in love with Natalie on account of her emails. Did you not see the photographs she sent? Did you not watch Black Swan? Or how about Closer? I bet you don't even know cochon d’inde is French for guinea pig, because you are only one-sixteenth French and she is a lot more.
And with regard to the guinea pigs, I was sad that you had chosen this quote to reference. You yourself have rabbits. You know how difficult it is to care for them. You had 17 at one point. Do you not understand Wonder? Yesterday we saw five bunnies when we left the community pool, and they didn’t clear my Wonder Line, but the look in my son’s eyes definitely did. He also made prolonged eye contact with a horse, during which it was pretty clear they were having some sort of communication. That made me feel wonder.
Also Natalie's ex-boyfriend described her as Moscow, and in your blog about touching stuff, John says you looked rather Russian, so I thought you would like that you and Natalie have that in common.
Anyway, please can you not do that again. It was very hurtful.
Regards
Jonathan (S.F)
PS. The New York Times did do a fantastic job of the layout of the story don't you think? I bet that is why you are so cross. Also you have to admit that you wished so much you had found a die-cutter in Durban to make you Tree of Codes, but I got there first. Ha. Did I tell you that it won an award. For Book Design. Your Game Supposedly. So There.