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Letter #156

Hi, Posey,

You look and sound so sweet; I wish I could hire a troop of body guards just to protect you. I always think beautiful girls like you are going to fall like grapes into the wrong mouth, especially when, as you say, English is not your first language.

Be careful! You have been so open and honest in your profile here, but mark my word: many are the false princes who will seek and flatter you, who, in retrospect, you will have been luckier to have kissed a poison toad.

If I'm wrong in this, and you really are a good listener, as you say, then I'm glad; for it means you already do know how to choose a partner and best protect yourself by hearing the intentions of others–both good and not–for what and who they really are.

Egbert