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Surely a kinder and sadder story can be whittled from the same evidence, to wit: that Hillary, a blue-stocking in love with a glamorpuss, had too eagerly bought Bill's Gladstone-like tales of helping troubled young women to find peace: enough so anyway to make a potential laughingstock of herself by repeating them on television, and enough also to give Bill some terrible legal advice in the specific matter of Monica.