"Nothing could be worse than this torment, and I cannot rid myself of it, " Clinton wrote.

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Anything less could easily be a worse step than nothing at all.

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If the embarrassment could somehow be dismissed as nothing but a blip in a meaningless fixture, worse came when they played a match that definitely mattered.

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