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you know, nice day at the spa, essentially. Q "A day of joy." A A day -- and so then after I go to the spa -- so it's the following day. I had gone on a Saturday. I believe I went on a Saturday morning. And so I wrote back and said, you know, "Best massage ever," meaning I had a very nice massage at the spa. And I said "but not your kind of a massage." Yes. That was a joke to him about the fact that he had engaged in the crime of prostitution where the act, again, as I understood it, was that he had paid women to give him sexualized massages. Now, what I wanted to say, taking a step back -- so, again, as I stated, I wish I had never met Jeffrey Epstein. I wish I never dealt with the guy. It was a mistake to deal with him. I wish I -- certainly wish I'd never emailed with him. And sitting here, you know, 10 years later, in light of everything we know now, this is a joke where I'm -- I am using humor to basically, again, sort of call him out on the fact that he had this conviction. And it's in poor taste. But when I was a -- when I was a prosecutor and I was doing prostitution cases, at this -- in the period of time -- so this -- when I was doing prostitution cases, it would have been, you know, 2001, 2002. In the District of Columbia, the crime of prostitution is the agreement between an individual who is seeking sex and someone who was willing to provide sex for money. The crime is the agreement. Okay? And we were instructed -- it was, you know, the policy of the office at the time that because the crime was the agreement, that both the “John” -- and I'm using the law enforcement terms -- the “John” and the prostitute were both prosecuted. They were both prosecuted equally. Q Can a minor be a prostitute? A Absolutely not. Q You told Jeffrey Epstein that -- A Absolutely not.