WASHINGTON — It was March 2020 when veteran journalist Ryan Lizza found an apology note in his DC home that wasn’t meant for him.

His live-in girlfriend, Olivia Nuzzi, had penned a letter on hotel stationery, and it was spilling out of her backpack on the floor of their three-story townhouse in Georgetown.

“Mark, I am sorry. I can’t say that I wish I hadn’t touched you, hadn’t,” the incomplete, abandoned handwritten letter dated March 5, 2020, obtained by The Post read.

The Mark, in this case, was former 2020 GOP presidential hopeful Mark Sanford, Lizza has publicly alleged. The aborted letter was one of three draft notes Lizza found handwritten by Nuzzi, a fellow journalist.

The note, penned on a Kimpton Hotels note pad from a reporting trip, is early evidence that Nuzzi crossed journ

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