this is the Best Email Ever. or at least, the most random i have received in a very long time.

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Subject: Did you intern at Boise Weekly?

[your author’s name here] —

Are you the same [your author’s name here] who interned at Boise Weekly?

If so — and this has been bothering me for years — I wanted to apologize for the library fine we racked up on the book you checked out as part of your intern duties.If there’s any chance you remember the cost, I would be happy to reimburse you. Probably not with interest. (Yes, I know. I really am this compulsive. Not, apparently, compulsive enough to get a book in on time, but there you go…)

Also, I wanted to say it looks like you’ve done really well. Clearly the most successful of any BW alum — OK, maybe that’s damning with faint praise. Congratulations on everything. Hope all is well.

And if this is not that same [your author’s name here]… Yeah, that would be embarrassing.

Take care,
Chris F

i did, for the record, intern at Ye Old Boise Weekly – in 1996*! i have no recollection of the libarary fine incident – tho it is possible that the Boise Library is still harboring a huge fine in my name, for all i know.

*for those of you tracking such biographical details, i also worked as the receptionist/food critic for the BW again, a few years later, but it was under a different management team, apparently.