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All that leaves many unresolved questions. Even if, as TIME and others have reported, Lewinsky told Tripp there was such a stained dress, was she telling the truth? If there is such a dress, why did the FBI's DNA testing apparently turn up nothing? And if there was a stained dress, was it a dress given by the President? But, as Goldstein notes, "journalism is messy." The truth does not always emerge immediately or neatly in a story this difficult and fast-paced. It will take still more time before the remaining wrinkles in the story of the dress get ironed out. If it ever happens at all.