Dear Anita, I read your manuscript some time ago and it has lain on my table -.. You have written your dream picture of me - and I am not that way at all. We are such different kinds of people that it reads as if we spoke different languages and didn't understand one another at all. You write of the legends others have made up about me - but when I read your manuscript, it seems as much a myth as all the others. I really believe that to call this my biography when it has so little to do with me is impossible - and I cannot have my name exploited to further it.
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