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    Dear Harriet Walter,

    I wonder if it's odd that the other day, drying off after a shower, I found myself trying to count how many kinds of killing I could list.

    And chanting their names over and over again.

    "Suicide, homicide, femicide, genocide, infanticide, matricide, patricide, fratricide, sororicide, regicide, tyrannicide, deicide, senicide. Suicide, homicide, femicide, genocide..." and so on.

    Best Friend just laughed at me when I told her about this. (Of course, I phrased it as a "do you ever find yourself doing such and such" question.)

    Laurie R King once used the word "ecclesiasticide" in one of her books. It is not in the dictionary but it is just another reason I love that woman to bits.