>>A friend of mine who Paul supervised gave him a gift of placemats from William Sonoma...<<

With great mental effort, I managed to convince myself that this is a true story. I happened to see the woman in question just days after reading Holly's note, so I repeated the anecdote and expressed my deep apologies for being so rude as to not thank her for the gift, now some ten years distant. Her response, quoted verbatim:

"Fuck you!"