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TW>This bothers me; did you plan your ad to be accurate to the point where
TW>you'd admit you were gold-digging to get a life with your other girlfriend?
TW>Would the other lover be told that there was a prostitute (high HIV risk-
TW>factor) in the triangle?  At least your message reminds me to ask lots of
TW>questions.... gotta watch out for that superficial presentability.

Gee.  You missed the whole point of the story.  Well, just so you don't
get your shorts in a knot, the facts are that this was pretty much
pre-AIDS, neither of us were HIV+, she squared up & married some guy, &
I even went to the wedding.  Happy ending, huh?  For her, anyway.  She
deserved it; she was really a nice person, which was why she was such
a lame whore, I suppose.

TW>>..   Personally, I've never seen a personal ad that in the event bore
TW>>much resemblance to the actual product.  Let's face it - in describing
TW>>ourselves, we just don't have the benefit of the view.

TW>Would it be too hard to admit your own dishonesty to yourself if you
TW>placed the ad you're discussing?

I wish I knew why it is that the most judgmental people are also so
incredibly naive...[sigh!]...  To answer your question, I have
remarkably little difficulty facing the truth, which is pretty doggone
courageous on my part, if I do say so myself, considering how
astonishingly ugly the truth generally is.  In any event, _that_ ad
never got placed for some reason.  It's probably just as well, as I've
never been able to juggle two lovers at once anyway.  I suppose this is
a weakness on my part, I dunno.  My motives are generally crystal clear,
however rococo they might be in detail.

TW>>... Though I've
TW>>had some extremely scary narrow escapes, I've never actually met with
TW>>any respondees from print personal ads ...

TW>One wonders who got lucky....

I'm glad I didn't stick around to find out, for the most part.  One
letter remains clearly in my memory.  It was written on the back of a
Xerox of a Polaroid of a rather nice-looking young blonde with her top
off, showing a brilliant smile & a splendid pair of breasts.  The note
began, "Dear J___,  How are you?  I am doing about as well as can be
expected for a white girl in jail..."
.   There were others that were at least this special, but the stories
are longer.  If a guy can manage to secure a safe blind drop for the
responses, I still say that personal ads are the best entertainment
value in America today.  One of the good parts is how the photo is
always a home snap made with direct flash, so the woman's eyes always
look like hot coals or those of a New Zealand rabbit caught in someone's
headlights.  Combining this with what's usually going on in the rest of
the picture, the effect is one of demonic posession.
.   At one point, I had a pretty fine collection of these pictures.
.   ~
.   M.

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