The Scarlet Letter

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For as long as she lived, my mother had an insatiable need to poke her nose into other people’s business. Snooping was her inalienable right, and everyone in the community was fair game. She wore out two of the old rotary dial telephones and obliterated the numbers on key pads of the new models by jabbing at the push buttons with the eraser end of a pencil.

Wanting to know everything about everybody and having a legal right to that knowledge are two vastly different things. I’d like to know whether my clients pay their bills on time, or whether the person driving in the lane next to me on the interstate has a record of DUI offenses, or whether my new neighbors have noisy parties that last all night. I can track down some of that information myself, but the government generally has no obligation to tell me

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