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I appreciate your letter. It won't get you very far with the particular crowd of people who haunt the Salon threads, but I appreciate it.
Here's something else to chew on; while the bitches of Real Housewives are meeting and socializing for the sole and express purpose of stabbing their own friends in the back, their husbands are out using prostitutes like the ones you saw on the ABC special as their fuck toys. Oh, I'm sure they can still afford them while they are teenagers and they look pretty good, but the girls end in the gutter which you describe.
An entire class of sociopathic exploiters, and people have nothing better to do than desire to emulate them. This has been the blindness and tragedy of the American middle class. And I can understand how you feel about your brother.