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Dear Grtchn1981:

 

There is no art to your profile. You could be the next Jane Austen and probably are. But there's still no art to your profile. You could be the next Willa Cather. And might be. Yet the simple, straightforward plainness of attributes that you lay out to define yourself to your reader have almost no picture to them. I was first struck by this when I saw your primary photograph a day or so ago. You appeared, because of the pink hue to your dress, to be, in juxtaposition to the light color of your skin, naked; yet, because of your dress' covering your body, breastless. That would make you a kind, not a cruel, Lady Macbeth who has unsexed herself.

 

It could just be that you are just comfortable being in your own skin. No one who wasn't would list having a salamander as a means to catch a good man as their favorite animal. (I happen to be fond of them myself; the woods and forest I live in, beneath the rocks, are sleeping with bright orange efts and others.) No one else would list as a merit her being a truly sucky piano player. (I, too, happen to have taught myself well enough to play some easy Beethoven sonatas, some delightful Mozart, and some of Bach's easier Goldberg Variations on my piano.) No one else would admit to being both valedictorian--apparently twice--and a reader of the Harry Potter series. (OK, I wasn't ranked as highly as you, either time; and I made it through, I believe 4 1/2 books of HP; but, I have read Homer, have studied Classical Greek, and am into both classical rock and, as indicated above, classical music as well.)

 

I am not, among other things you want, blond and blue-eyed. Like you, however, I am nominally Jewish. I do hope that you really are, as you say, someone who "could be up for anything," the "could" being the bevel upon which all rests.

 

You don't, by the way, sound corny. You sound simply as though you are opening up; maybe you'll show me what that is like a little bit, and I'll show you, too.

 

Egbert

# 99

 

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