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What strikes me is that just a few days before, I had originally been scheduled to be in New York City at that time for a business trip, but it got canceled, and I'm forever grateful for that.

Jeff and I were colleagues in a few more years because what led me to California and Jeff was the fact that I was in Manhattan at Columbia Library and got a phone call from one of my sources out of Washington who said, Well, the quote was, it's an attack.

I said, what? And that was it.

That was the clue I had.

We didn't have laptops in those days or iPhones.

Nothing like that existed.

It was everything was wired to a... a monitor at the head of the library they were very apologetic about even having that monitor in the Columbia Library so I marched forward and looked into it and pretty soon the reporting came by 9.30 a.m. in the morning that it was a hostile act the day spilled on after that however I got a phone call later in the day from WABC in New York as saying, we understand you know who did this.

And I said, well, I have some ideas.

She would go down the steps to the basement of Hamilton Hall, enter through a heavy door, follow the maze of steam pipes wherever they led, and happily surprised, come out at Schermerhorn Hall on the other side of the campus.

One Thursday evening at about eight o'clock in the summer of 1920, Amelia, seeking unusual diversion on the one night off she allowed herself during the week, decided to climb to the top of the Columbia Library dome.

Somehow she had managed to borrow the key that would admit her up the winding stairs.

Impatient to be off, she ran up the long, wide steps in front of Low Library.

I want to put them in your library.

I want the DEA, where it's actually ICE, to have to come into Columbia University Library.

and take it and my lawyers on speed dial I'll have the press there this is important and they give me the well you know we stand by you wholeheartedly uh but you know the thing is but the you know and they fold it you know and like so many did uh you know and and do it's worse than ever people are very defeated they feel like it's futile and that's why this case is very important to me because We in the creative professions, we have to stand up for ourselves.

And will I win? Will I get? I don't know.

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