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==Personal Response==
==Personal Response==
After being remanded to Bellevue, Mailer confessed to the judge: “I feel I did a lousy, dirty, cowardly thing.”{{sfn|McKinley|2021|p=3}}
After being remanded to Bellevue, Mailer confessed to the judge: “I feel I did a lousy, dirty, cowardly thing.”{{sfn|McKinley|2021|p=3}}
In an interview, Mailer was asked if he drank a lot (he was drunk when he stabbed her). Mailer went to say the only time he ever drank heavily was when a marriage was breaking up.{{sfn|Legs|2020|pg:50}} When asked why Mailer stabbed his second wife, Adele Morales, Mailer opts out of talking about it saying that he'd maybe write about it later. He was then asked if he hated women to which he responds that he doesn't hate them, however he did get irritated with them differently than he did with men.{{sfn|Legs|2020|pg:52}}


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