Derek wrote:

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I hate to burst your bubble on this issue, Jon, but I'm not
sure that her real name IS Lesley anyway.

He tends to go off half-cocked, leap to assumptions, and then refuse
to modify his wild statements.

Why do you help him anyway? He has never said a kind -- or even
vaguely civil -- word to, or about, you, ever. He has cynically
used you as his cat's-paw to avoid dirtying his hands directly
with things you *know* are wrong. What kind of masochistic
pleasure do you get out of abasing yourself to lick his boots?

You are better than that. Stand up and be a man, Derek.

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