From: paul krassner
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 11:55 PM
To: Jeffrey E.
Subject: a coda

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Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240

April 11, 2018

Hi Jeffrey,

You may recall that my wife Nancy =ain has scoliosis which is excruciating pain unless she's sitting =wisted. No surgery could help but one surgeon practicing 33 years is a pioneer in =he use of birth stem-cells. There was no choice but to "gamble" =he $10,400. Ironically, the injections have turned even worse pain.

Now Nancy has been researching a solid month of researching. She discovered the most respected individual =as Dr. Brett Diaz, a .scoliosis specialist in using spine-braces based on =-rays.

It would cost me $6,000. I have $1,000. Would you consider giving me $5,000? I still get freelance =ssignments — a piece for Variety about 1968, this year marking the 50th anniversary, and a book review for the LA Times, a biography of =cience-fiction author Harlan Ellison. I'll have my own book, 60 =ears of Investigative Satire, published in 2019 for a $2000 advance. Andy Borowitz has written an introduction, and Art Spiegelman contributed a juicy blurb for the back of the cover. Ho hum .. .

Hopeful,

Paul aka Zen Bastard aka Rumpleforeskin