A week later, he received a reply.

一个星期后，他收到了回信。

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A doctor with ideas as to psychiatric treatments asked him "if they were biting," to which he received the harsh reply: "Of course not, you fool, since this is a bathtub."

一个精通心理治疗的医生曾问他，“是否鱼儿在咬钩”，结果却得到了一句刺耳的回答：“当然不会了，你这个笨蛋，这是浴桶！”

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He hit the send button at 2 a.m. and, to his surprise, received a reply the next afternoon.

两点钟他点击发送了邮件，令他惊讶的是第二天下午他就收到了回信。

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Mr Price said he received a "surprising" reply when he contacted Patrick Ross, chief constable of the now defunct Rochdale Borough Police.

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He said he woke up just before 0330 GMT to discover his partner had not returned to their Westmorland Road flat, so he sent her a text message but received no reply.

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He must have had a huge postbag but on each occasion I received a helpful and encouraging reply, typed on his famous old typewriter.

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