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Monica was immature but not naive. What follows comes from her own testimony to the independent prosecutor: She told her friends when she took off for D.C. for her unpaid internship after college that she was taking her kneepads because she planned to seduce Clinton. The government shutdown gave her the chance because paid employees were put on leave and interns, like Lewinsky, filled in. One day she wangled a way to get to Clinton by delivering pizza. When she entered his office, she pulled her skirt (pants?) part way down and flipped her thong underwear at him. The rest, as they say, is history.
