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Fraya also gave many false statements to Mello. She said he was the father of two children when he did not have any. She examined his hand and stated he was thirty-two years old, although he was forty-three at the time. Mello noted that "the revelations obtained in my consultation with Madame Fraya
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session with Madame Fraya. Mello brought with him some letters. Fraya made totally inaccurate statements about the letters, for example on studying a letter that Mello had written the same morning she stated it was written by someone else and gave excessively general characterisation details that
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Mello also attended a session with Fraya in
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would be applicable to most people. She said one of the letters had been written by a man but it had actually been written by a female relative of Mello.
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