Reply-to: jake@seethru.co.uk
From: "Murray" yq94@dial.pipex.com
Subject: You young people don't understand romance?
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:49:51 -0000

Dear Jake,

As I ponder the failure of yet another of your relationships, I think the time has come for me to offer you some advice. You're not unattractive in appearance, and when you take time to make the effort, I've noted a degree of charm. And yet still no prospective partner. This leads to a lot of gossip in the family. This doesn't concern me. What I wish for most is your own personal happiness. And I sense that you are at present a deeply unhappy young man.
You must remember that the art of wooing a woman is like a military campaign - you have to marshal your forces (making the best of what you have been given) before laying siege and mounting her battlements. You can't just hang back waiting for her to let the drawbridge down in surrender. The trouble with your generation is that you've forgotten old-fashioned courting.

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