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At least I'm pretty sure that's what it was. About a week after I'd received an obscene phonecall and stopped answering my phone (back before cellphones), I got an irate message on my answering machine from a woman whose voice I'd never heard before. She said something like "I don't know who you are, you damned bitch, but I found your number in my husband's wallet! I know he's screwing around with you! I'm going to come over there and beat your damned ass!" She left her number and her name. So I called her back. I told her that I was very grateful for her call, and that I was going to be calling the police about her husband's obscene phonecall. I also told her that I had the tape of her threat, and that I'd pass it on to the police. She begged me not to make the call. I got her to promise to tear up the phone number and see to it that her husband never called me again, and left her alone. He never did call back.