Mensa International
15 The Ivories
6-8 Northampton Street
London
N1 2HY
England

June 10, 2004

Dear Mensa:

     I have previously sent this letter to your Canadian chapter, but since I did not hear back from them, I have chosen to write you. There is an issue in my life that has yet to be resolved, and I turn to your organization to help me solve it. This re-occurring event has kept me awake many nights for many years, and it is my hope that you can help extract some reason from it.

     You see, I often wear two shirts when I got out. In most circumstances, my attire consists of a common cotton t-shirt covered over with a sweater. On an odd number of occasions, I find my belly button to be full of lint when the shirts are removed. Now, here is where it gets weird… the lint in my belly button is the same material found in my outer-layer shirt. Through some mystery that only a society as intelligent as yours could understand, this material diffuses its way through my t-shirt, and ends up in my naval. I can see how fabric from the inside shirt could collect there, but not from the outside shirt. This has left me very concerned that there is some sort of static charge emanating from my belly button. This further leads me to worry about my state of health. I have had a series of cat scans done around my abdominal area, with no conclusive results. Maybe it is my electro-lites?

     Can you please write back to me with any theories you have as to the cause of this? It would be of great relief to me, and my wife, who now neglects the naval she so once loved to adorn with kisses.

 Yours in search of answers,

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