[KuraFire]

Boofo: the Letter is for the search index in the upcoming Quote List hack.

Quote:
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

Name:
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Letter:
O

(as in, Oppenheimer)

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Quote:
Woman was God's second mistake.

Name:
Friedrich Nietzsche

Letter:
N


See how it works, now? In the upcoming Quotes List, people can click on a letter (ie. `N`) and it will display all quotes made by people whose last names start with an N. Since you can't index it through the name column (try doing a reg.ex on "Sir General S. Patton" for instance. ) the Letter column is for the search index.
I am guessing you'll now have to fix 27+ quotes in your database?