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harumph

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7. Are mere infidelities with adult women sufficient to enable blackmail...

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2026, 10:28 AM

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for people of Gate's class? Color me skeptical. Maybe low value blackmail. Methinks you need something really scandalous. I think there's more to this story than the prosaic explanation - that Bill stumbled into a honeypot. No doubt this is the anodyne narrative that was told to Melinda.

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