Dear Readers:

I need to give you some background about the following letter.

Starting about 4 years ago, a guy who lived/worked on the corner of my block said hello to me while I walked my dog. He was very good looking, mid-thirties, athletic....

But from the time he appeared on my corner, I was either in love with an MM or healing from heartache from an MM. I had no desire to get to know this, or any guy. None.

Over a two year period we finally started talking. Not much, but some. He told me I was the hardest person to talk to. No shit.

He told me he was engaged. I asked him: Hey. Are you in love with your fiancee? Is this really til death do us part?

He told me his story. Not in love but loves her. Wants to have a family. I stood there thinking: Here we have it. An MM in the making.

Fast forward a year, I guess. I'm already doing AskEmerald. My computer is broken at home. I ask him if I can use his computer a couple times a week since his office was two seconds from my front door. I showed him the site... told him about MMs and the pain.

After about two weeks I got my computer back and stopped going there. The following is the letter he wrote to AskEmerald:

"I am casual friends with a young lady who is my neighbor around the corner. Recently, she has been stopping by to borrow my computer to answer her email since her's is not functioning. I have always enjoyed conversations with her on the street because she bright, attractive, and exudes sexiness.

I am a recenly wed, happily married man who loves his wife very much, and she is a woman who has had more than her share of MM trouble, so neither of us is interested in getting something started.

Had we met at a diferrent time, I still don't think we would have been "boyfriend/girlfriend material", however, I do think we would have spent active time together motor/bicycling, exercising, and having occassional hot, steamy sex involving telephones, bathtubs, massage oils, and instructional videos and, hopefully, other willing participants.

My problem is two-fold: a)Soon she is going to buy a new computer and disappear out of my life forever. b)How do I get her to let me have a picture of her in thong underwear to remember her by?

If you have any enlightening ideas for me and my dilema, please let me know .

Loner with a ...

After receiving this letter I saw him on the street. I asked him for permission to use it on this site to publicly rake him through the coals. He was not too thrilled, but agreed.

Would any newlywed pregnant wife think this is an innocent, funny letter? Would any of us have thought this was an innocent, funny letter?

I think the first answer is no, and the second, yes. Years ago I might have thought that this was just a joke, and I would have continued talking to him. Maybe made a big joke of it myself.

Years ago, I wouldn't have seen it for what it is. The man is trolling. He says he isn't, but, hello? Hot tubs, steamy sex.... not with his wife?

And how much you wanna bet that if I sent this letter to his wife (which I won't, of course), I would be called the homewrecking, flirting slut???

Reactions? Comments? I'd love to read what y'all have to say.

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