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Your portrait of Marion Lewis on the day before his daughter's killer was executed in Virginia was offensive [front page, Nov. 9]. The grieving father was described as "a bulky, balding man" who smokes "cheap Seneca cigarettes" and who wipes away his tears with "beefy hands."
Isn't it bad enough to have lost a daughter? Must he also be humiliated and demeaned -- and on the front page of The Post? Where is the writer's sense of compassion?
Bebe Faas Rice,
Potomac Falls
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I was appalled by the article on Marion Lewis.
Did his circumstances or appearance in any way affect the depth of his grief? Had he been a GQ model, would I have felt even more empathetic toward him?
I focused on Lewis's face and posture, not his physicality. By enumerating each detail as writer Michael Ruane did, he drew my attention to only the insensitivity of his reporting. Why did your editors allow such an unkind and irrelevant lead paragraph?
Sandra Harvey
Steinberg, Walkersville, Md.
