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      <title>Comments On: Savage Love
    
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    <author><![CDATA[SlimJimPoisson]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Ironically, I think that the letter from LIPL is more clearly a fake than the one sent to Dearest Abby.<br />
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However, it is interesting to go from zero to hero in no time flat. Like becoming famous or suddenly getting rich, I moved to China last year and the attention I get from women here is sometimes unnerving. I have always had a wife/girlfriend and compared to many I have done OK in the dating circle, but I have never gotten that kind of attention before. It made me understand the confliction that any decent person undergoes when they realize the advantage that they have. I try to be nice to these girls without leading them on. It's also difficult to tell who might really like you for you from those who want you for whatever crazy reason is rattling around in their brain.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mehdi Rifai, you didn't read carefully: he was 5'10" sometime during his teens or mid-twenties; now he is 32. Growing 3 inches over that time frame sounds normal to me. We don't know how long it took him to lose the weight -- could have been over the course of a year or more.
        
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      <![CDATA[Sorry this is old, but I'd like to point out that you know this letter, the one about the fat man gone hot, is a fake, because he started off at 5'10" and after losing the weight he's 6'1". I'd like to gain a few inches by rearranging my weight.<br />
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Also, maybe the reason he (in this imaginary scenario) doesn't like all the pussy he's getting is because he knows that a few months ago, before the weight loss, none of these women would talk to him. Maybe he feels resentment towards the fact that even though he feels the same inside, it has taken an inordinate amount of effort to be seen as "worthy" by women who wouldn't give him the time of day before. Maybe, while caving to the conventions of what makes a good looking person, he finds he doesn't appreciate such an overt demonstration of what modeling himself after these conventions can get him.
        
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      <![CDATA[Sorry this is old, but I'd like to point out that you know this letter, the one about the fat man gone hot, is a fake, because he started off at 5'10" and after losing the weight he's 6'1". I'd like to gain a few inches by rearranging my weight.<br>
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Also, maybe the reason he (in this imaginary scenario) doesn't like all the pussy he's getting is because he knows that a few months ago, before the weight loss, none of these women would talk to him. Maybe he feels resentment towards the fact that even though he feels the same inside, it has taken an inordinate amount of effort to be seen as "worthy" by women who wouldn't give him the time of day before. Maybe, while caving to the conventions of what makes a good looking person, he finds he doesn't appreciate such an overt demonstration of what modeling himself after these conventions can get him.
        
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          Posted by <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Profile?oid=7924475">Mehdi Rifai</a>]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[Route42]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[haha, I'm pretty sure I read an erotic story with the EXACT same wording as the Dear Abby letter. And if it wasn't the same thing, it was close enough.
        
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      <![CDATA["Besides not enclosing a few dozen pictures with your e-mail, there's nothing wrong with you that I can tell" except that you are full of shit!  I love it!  Great job, as always, Dan!
        
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      <![CDATA[I like Savage's subtle method of calling LIPL out on his bull shit letter. Smooth
        
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