Last week, TBD published an accounting of around-$10 gifts we sent out to various Washington-area swells. Someone finally wrote back! The Washington Post's Dan Zak sent a kind note acknowledging our gift of Jewel's A Night Without Armor, which we figured the author of this piece might find enlightening.

You can read it below, and make sure to see Zak in person tomorrow afternoon at the Newseum!

Confidential to my boss: Does this mean I can get my expense report paid?