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Our charade had been fun, but our enemy did not respond in the way that we had hoped. Instead, Mr. E was a chicken who sent nothing back to us. It was getting old, and we decided to come clean. So we sent this to him:

Dear Mr. E-
We'd like to expose ourselves to you. We, Joan and Marie, are the devious alter-egos of two of your acquaintances. I'm sure you can guess who these two young ladies are, but we want to make you POSITIVE. Maybe perhaps now you can actually respond to our e-mails now that you know who we are.
Halloween was a great time this year. We dressed up as our beloved alter-egos, with Joan as a "pink lady" in a fushia outfit, complete with matching heels and pink hairspray in her hair. Marie went for the "blue devil" look in a stretchy blue dress, navy heels, and curled hair. And no, you would not have thrown up.
And, alas, we will be forced to miss your concert and quintet (Marie is interested in how well Ella plays the clarinet), but we will come to another concert soon. Joan hopes that you will be willing to come to one of our concerts. Marie still wants to shadow you on one of the rare occasions that you have a day off school and we do not. As you have many more vacation days, she hopes that you will come shadow her, too. We shall find out, won't we?
If you haven't figured out our identities . . . well, frankly, there is no hope for your poor soul. But we're sure that you know who we are. We hope that your concert tonight went well. E-mail us when you get this at our real addresses; we don't believe that you would send anything at this e-mail address anyway.
Ta-ta,
Joan and Marie

So . . . we had exposed ourselves. Now that Kyle knew who we were (for sure, that is), the ego appeared once more:

Okay. You guys are dumb. you do realize that I have known it was you for a long time. That's why I replied to emails have normal conversations with '(Joan's real name)' and '(Marie's real name)', gtg
kb

But we know otherwise. He had no idea that it was us until the second time that we e-mailed him (at the Yahoo address instead of AOL). Also, we had a slip of the tounge when we accidentally mentioned that we were going as Joan and Marie for Halloween. Before that, he thought it was another enemy of his . . . one who tried to get his password in order to hack his screen name and also destroyed his mailbox. An enemy that does not work with us, that is in a league of his own. But that is a completely different story . . . one that is not important and really has nothing to do with our case.

And that is our story. Joan and Marie have been exposed to our enemy, but that does not mean that we will not continue to work against him.

-Joan and Marie