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Old 07-23-2010, 07:46 PM   #1
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Default Bad Letters to the Editor Thread

I'm not sure if this has been attempted before, or if people even read letters to the editor, but as someone who reads the opinion section of newspapers pretty religiously, I can't help but laughing at a few of them.

I'll start it off with a letter from today's Calgary Herald.

NOTE: In keeping with the rules on CP, I think that even if the letter is very short, we cannot simply copy and paste the entire thing...Mods, please tell me if I'm wrong about this.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion...985/story.html

Quote:
I am a 14-year-old student, and I have just completed Grade 8. Some of what my classmates were talking about was so immoral and so sexually wrong that it cannot and should not be written of here. Sometimes, I felt like buying a double lock for my bedroom door, and spending my nights cowering in my closet.
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