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[For too long, McSweeney's has been hoarding your correspondence, not sharing your thoughts with those who you did not intend to see them. But no more. The following letters, for which we offer no excuses or take any responsibility, will kick off a new letters page thing, which will be regular, and click-onto-able. It will be very much like the chat rooms one hears so much about. It will be magical. But to make this possible, we need your help. From now on, please send printable correspondence to this address, and also to mcsweeneysmail@yahoo.com. Thank you.] - - - - Dear McSweeney's,I must say that the idea of a "Mark O'Donnell Week" is simply sensational. Although my dad has the same name -- which is cool also. However it should be Mark O'Donnell Week for ALL Mark O'Donnells because all Mark O'Donnells deserve just as much as the one the holiday was named after -- just because they did not make it as big as the main M. O'Donnell Daniel O'Donnell - - - - Dear McSweeney's,I was glancing at some old ET mags and saw Dave Eggars in his Bkln apt. Why do I write? Well I thought I was the ONLY messy person writing around. . .his picture showed him to be like ME in my Bronx apartment. That makes me fell GOOD and un--unique. I like looking at pictures in mags and cutting some articles out. I also read read read and write too. I may continue reading mcsweeneys. Robert - - - - Animal sex stories involving my grandmother, Part 1by Jamie Humphrey My grandmother on my mother's side, the one who used to chase me around her house with scissors threatening to cut out my tongue because I called her 'Granny', has a patio just off her living room with a sliding glass door. She likes to leave the curtains open so she can watch the birds. One day there was a huge grasshopper clinging to the outside screen. I got closer and saw it was actually two grasshoppers, twisted around each other, shaking. Grandma and I watched in unashamed fascination. Eventually all the shaking made them fall to the sidewalk. Then grandma's cat Smokey sauntered over and ate them. Grandma said, "Well. They had their fun and now they're gone." This incident + parochial school = no sex until many years later. - - - - Dear McSweeneys:Which McSweeney is your favorite? I like Rebecca. and I recently purchased a copy (two actually, just in case) of the first edition of your lovely journal. While reading it on the 4 train this morning, I noticed something in the letter from Don in Arizona (world's worst cities if they are named after local landmarks). Of course there is no "Scrotum, Connecticut." BUT there is a "Scotsrun" (maybe spelled with two 't's ?) in either CT or NY (it's a town i'd pass on the way to school, in NY, from my parents' house, in CT). INVARIABLY when passing the interstate exit sign advertising the town, one reads the name of said town as "Scrotum." This was first noted by an ex-boyfriend & it has held true over the years. When I first read the letter, I thought Don had made the same mistake. I read further & learned it was fiction. But what a fortunate coincidence! Yours truly,
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