Dear Hillary,
You won’t remember me, but you did give me such good advice last year. I was the guy with the GF here, but I was only here on holidays, for one month a year. I took your advice and looked a bit more realistically at the relationship and realized I didn’t have a relationship. I was just sending money to some bar girl who most likely had others doing the same. I had asked you how would I find out if she was back working at the bar or not, and you made me see sense. I stopped sending money, and the loving emails stopped as well. I just want to tell other guys in the same situation that if your GF speaks in broken English, and her emails are perfect, then she’s not writing them, is she?
(ex)Doubting Thomas
Dear (ex)Doubting Thomas,
So nice to know that our little column here has been of great help, my Petal. When I get letters like the one at the top of the page from people like Ernie (hand delivered with no return address), it makes me quite sad, as there are so many “lost” souls out there. However when I got your email, it really helped sparkle up my day, and I was very happy to reply, as well as print it in the column. Now that you are an “ex” Doubting Thomas, you will find you can make lots of lasting, good relationships from now on. Congratulations on ‘coming of age’. (Please wrap your next letter around a cold bottle of bubbly, that’s a good chap.)
