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The messages, sent in 2018 and 2019—and up until the day before Epstein’s arrest—were needles in a roughly 20,000-page haystack of Epstein documents released by a House committee last week.

“You were a needle in a haystack, to be sure!”

“Are merely the haystack. Designed to engage all our attention and make the needle within impossible to see.”

"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," Pavia said.

“What you must realize,” he wrote to his first wife, Mary, “is that once I begin a story you become a character, not a person; Monet’s haystacks didn’t complain that they weren’t really purple.”