text:  Sitting there, reading this email, Patti felt a cloud over her. The pictures referenced in the email were intimate, explicit even, exactly the kind of thing a blackmailer could try to use for leverage. How do you respond to something like that? Patti felt besieged, but she also had a remarkable answer to the question. We'll get to that soon enough, but before we do, I want you to understand who Patti really is.