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    Whose Oversharing Are We Talking About?

    I don't think it's Elizabeth's oversharing that was the problem! (And you don't mean, Hanna, that cancer ought to be kept under wraps, so as to avoid scaring the grown-ups?) Tonight, my 12-year-old who has been a big fan of Elizabeth's husband since '04—and still remembers that story about the girl with no winter coat—asks me, "So, was John Edwards not who we thought he was all along?'' Which is maybe not the saddest question of his that I've ever had to field. (That prize was handed out long ago, after he asked about the Catholic bishops: "Was what happened to those kids a conspiracy? Because otherwise, how did they all know to do the wrong thing?'') Still, this one is right up there. Oh, and he agrees with you, Rachael, that no one hog-tied the man and dragged him to Larry Craig land.
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