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LETTER: The power of satire

When I started to read Joe Mathews’ essay on the Sunday Viewpoints cover about “foster care for all,” I was appalled. Then I became enraged. Unbelievable.

But by paragraph five, I’d figured it out and began to chuckle — and that turned to full-fledged laughter. What a great idea. The only thing wrong is that you forgot to print the last two words: April fools!

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