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I hope nobody believes that old Lupe story


While a lot of people don't let the truth get in the way of a good yarn, it's cruel to perpetuate it when the person is dead and can't fight back. She did commit suicide. The rest is pure fiction.

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Thank you for your probity (my phone would prefer I write, "thank you for your robots").

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If you are referring to the cruel myth as detailed by Kenneth Anger in his "nonfiction" book, I completely agree with you.

"Wow. Our town has only had a Whole Foods for three weeks and we already have our first gay kids."

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This 5/24/13 Huffington Post article debunks Anger's slander with a newly-discovered death scene photo of Lupe:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-schroeder/mexican-spitfire-mystery-_b_3332978.html

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