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When I read in Bitten about the release of radio-labeled ticks on my distant ancestor William Ladd's Charles City County VA plantation Montpelier, I knew better than to bring that up with the parents of my daughter's college roommate, Senator Tim Kaine and Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holten. Our conversations were strictly limited to our kids. Interested to hear about the use of flies to spread cholera. My late mother in law was a secretary in the Shanghai OSS office that interrogated Kitano. While her eyes lit up when the newspapers wrote about perchlorate contamination south of Morgan Hill, to her dying day she NEVER talked about her OSS days save to profess that she never understood anything what she was transcribing.

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