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The hazards of a too efficient secretary....

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[Noted in HARVARD MAGAZINE, September/October 1990.]
 
Conservative Member of Parliament Geoffrey Dickens tells of attending a fair
in his constituency and being followed around by a sweet but exceptionally
ugly woman whom he couldn't get rid of.
 
A few days later he got an admiring letter from her asking for his
photograph, and signed, after her name, "(Horseface)".
 
Dickens was touched by her humorous modesty and sent off a picture 
autographed, "To Horseface, with best wishes, Geoffrey Dickens."
 
Some time later his secretary asked him, "Did you get that letter from the
woman at the fair?  I wrote 'Horseface' after her name so you'd know which
one she was."

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