New Mail Message Won't Let Me Delete Attachment

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
10.10.2 (14C109)
2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
500 GB SSD
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
Now some fun with emails.
I composed a lengthy, carefully thought out, email to my CPA.  Then, without thinking, I added an PDF document as an attachment right in the middle of the text.  Can happen to anyone.
I spent the next 20 minutes looking for a delete, CMD X, edit delete, or someway to remove the attachment.  No luck,  CMD Z did remove the CC: entry I just added, but not the attachment.  Can't drag it.
So I spent another 10 minutes manipulating the text, ever so carefully, around the attachment, so the attachment would appear at the bottom on the email.
So tell me.  Someone actually designed it to work this way?  Or maybe design is too harsh of a word.  It is a **** of a lot of work for something that should be so simple.

Normally, you delete objects like that in mail by either positioning the cursor just after the attachment and pressing delete. Or by clicking once on it and pressing delete.

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