What was surprising was not the informality of your note \u201d\u201d everyone knows that for public relations folks, journalists are on an automatic first-name basis \u201d\u201d but that it came from Marie Claire magazine. Fashion writing has not loomed large in this column.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s hard economic times,\u201d\u009d you helpfully explained, \u201chave a profound effect not only on our bank accounts but on our sense of hope and psychological well-being,\u201d\u009d an insight, you must admit, that has not escaped millions of Americans, to count only those who still have bank accounts.<\/p>\n
Still, you announced that it had inspired an article in the current issue of Marie Claire featuring accounts by \u201cfive modern career gals\u201d\u009d of \u201chow their belief in faith helped them through the hardest of struggles.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
The article is titled \u201cCheaper Than Therapy.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n