Reader’s business hammered by blog post

Cecil,

Last week a woman contacted me regarding commissioning an oil portrait.

She drove up here and saw my work in person at DOWNTOWN BOOKS AND NEWS and was suitably impressed, but then she mentioned to me that she had found on-line my letter about Billy Graham’s column.
She found it on YOUR web page.

She left without commissioning a portrait.

Surely with the skills you have honed as a reporter you can go back and rewrite history and delete the word “portrait”, which appears on the same page on your site as your inclusion of my Graham letter. (Surprisingly, in context, “portrait” is used as a description of your book about Mr. Graham, rather than in reference to the craft I practice.)

Can you please delete the word “portrait” from your web page ?
And also the words:

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Thank you.

r. ogle
Asheville

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