[DEB]
Dear Professor Thompson
Hey, it's Deb! How are things going?
Heard your latest book is done, can't wait to read it!

(She pauses, backspaces, re-types:)

...buy it!

In the meantime
I've one teeny little question
To propose to you:
As one academic
To another academic
Have you ever, say, misplaced
A whole entire book
Containing your research?
Oh God, Professor Thompson
I'm a fool! I have to tell you
That I might have left my research
On the subway somewhere

So I'm hoping you'll just give me my degree without my thesis

Love, smiley face!