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[argyle_princess]

To: Temperance Brennan <tbrennan@jeffersonian.gov>
From: Hannah Griffith <hannahgriffith@neptunehigh.org>
Subj: Liked Your Book

Dear Dr. Brennan,

I found this address on the Jeffersonian's website, and I really hope it's okay to be writing to you at it. My name is Hannah Griffith, I'm a junior at Neptune High, and I just finished reading your book and I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed reading it. Kathy Reichs was just an incredibly cool character, and the forensic anthropology stuff was interesting.

Is it all right to ask you what advice you'd have for a sixteen-year-old girl who'd like to learn more about forensic anthropology? I'll completely understand if you're way too busy to answer fan e-mails from random high school students, but I figured it didn't hurt to ask.

Anyway, the book was great and I'm already looking forward to your next one.

Sincerely,
Hannah Griffith

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[argyle_princess]

To: Temperance Brennan <tbrennan@jeffersonian.gov>
From: Hannah Griffith <hannahgriffith@neptunehigh.org>

Subj: RE: High School

Dr. Brennan,

LOL. They wear ski masks, when they streak. We may be a hotbed of high school debauchery, but it's not so bad that we can recognize each other naked from the neck down, with faces covered.

And the school authorities will just love that this is what I'm choosing to tell a noted forensic anthropologist about Neptune High.

Hannah

[dr_temperance]

To: Hannah Griffith <hannahgriffith@neptunehigh.org>
From: Temperance Brennan <tbrennan@jeffersonian.gov>
Subj: RE: High School

Dear Hannah,

I could probably tell you a dozen different ways to pick your streakers out of a (fully clothed) line-up using forensic anthropological applications. And hundreds of studies have been done on the role of initiation rituals in society.

So, we'd tell the school officials that this is all of scholarly interest, not tawdry gossip.

I don't remember anyone streaking when I was in high school, but I definitely remember a few college incidents.

T. Brennan

P.S. And by that I mean I remember them strictly as a spectator, not a participant.

[argyle_princess]

To: Temperance Brennan <tbrennan@jeffersonian.gov>
From: Hannah Griffith <hannahgriffith@neptunehigh.org>
Subj: Seriously?

Dr. Brennan,

Ok, I'll bite. So how could you pick them (fully clothed) out of a line up? And what is the role of intiation rituals in society? I mean, aside from the disruption of lunch?

Hannah