To the Statesman? Sir?
[In his standard barely readable scrawl-- All strikethroughs are still legible.]
Just wanted to preemptively throw in that anything you may have heard about any goings on between Recluse (Stephan? Stefan?) and I are purelymostly untrue. And I wanted to put it out into the open that
[The rest is written in a nervous hurry, messier than usual, words running together a bit]
--we'rejust friends and tathat I didn't mean for it to seem like I was stealing your boyfriend. We're just friends Iswear.
However in the case that you have NOT heard anything, then nothing has happened and people are only spreading slander that you really shouldn't bother yourself with.
-piper
[With the exception of "we're just friends" and "-piper", the rest of the note has been rendered illegible by thick black marker.]
Just wanted to preemptively throw in that anything you may have heard about any goings on between Recluse (Stephan? Stefan?) and I are purelymostly untrue. And I wanted to put it out into the open that
[The rest is written in a nervous hurry, messier than usual, words running together a bit]
--we'rejust friends and tathat I didn't mean for it to seem like I was stealing your boyfriend. We're just friends Iswear.
However in the case that you have NOT heard anything, then nothing has happened and people are only spreading slander that you really shouldn't bother yourself with.
-piper
[With the exception of "we're just friends" and "-piper", the rest of the note has been rendered illegible by thick black marker.]