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November 27, 2005

Missing Persons Report

From: Randy Mailed-By: gmail.com
To: Daniel Berdichevsky
Date: Nov 26, 2005 2:24 PM
Subject: Fwd: Daniel

As you are no doubt aware, you are being sought by your family right now.

I told your mom that you were most likely in Spain trekking or roadtripping and either had 1) little access to email or 2) good incentive to avoid checking your email (I will go for days without checking to avoid having to psychologically acknowledge an email).

But in the case something did happen to you and you are [and these are all popular things to happen in Europe] 1) taxed to death 2) time warped to a Nazi field hospital suffering amnesia 3) captured by CIA agents and sent to Guantanamo, then we will likely be arranging a funeral.

I propose to host the theatrical portion of the funeral. To do that, I will need access to your frequent flyer account. I will use the miles to fly some classmates and professors of yours from the Kennedy School of Government, along with most of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association that you are so fond of. They will 1) perform an role-playing game featuring the Mayan death celebration 2) engage in various re-enactments of your life based on your emails 3) poetic renditions of instant messages you have sent and 4) engage in a panel discussion of various academic papers you have written 5) act in the premiere of a certain Shakesperean epic you wrote at the KSG that features Dick Cheney as a character. If possible, the role of Dick Cheney will be played by Richard Clarke. Or vice-versa.

I will also get in touch with a particular sketchy South Korean character we both know, to initiate the cloning process.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rosie Berdichevsky
Date: Nov 25, 2005 5:11 PM
Subject: Daniel
To: Randy
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Hi Randy,

How are you doing?  Have you heard anything from Daniel?  I thought
maybe you have, we have not.  Can you please let me know?

Rosie

Posted by rxu at November 27, 2005 12:48 AM

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