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Then one day when everyone else had left the office he said, 'You know Marni, I'm very grateful there's a wall between our offices, because otherwise I should find it difficult not to throw myself at you.' (Yes, he really did talk like that.) I felt off-balance. This was not a compliment, I realized, it was more like a threat. I told him that his remarks were inappropriate and asked him to stop.
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'He tells her everything was a lie,' said a friend who read Bhabra's letter. 'He tells her he was not a legal immigrant. That there is no book [the writer was working on a trilogy with Doubleday] no publisher, no money. That he failed at everything and everybody. And that he's sorry, but he has to go.'
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