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Marianne re-recorded ‘Sister Morphine’ during the Broken English sessions, and the track was issued on 7″ and 12″ for a special Island 20th anniversary release in 1982. In some territories the tracks were reversed, and “Sister Morphine” was the A-Side. The Australian 12″ came with a further track – ‘The Letter’ a spoken word recording of a passage from Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the 18th century epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. This had been recorded for the short promotional film Marianne made for Dangerous Acquaintances and was originally intended to close that LP but Island blanched at the inclusion of a spoken word track and in the end only the album’s title made reference to the Laclos novel.