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I would be honored to go to lunch with you anytime you want. You just let me know<br />

what day is good for you.<br />

Mel<br />

PS I will definitely try to work the snoring thing into my next column.<br />

To: John Trent <br />

From: Stacy Trent <br />

Subject: Why is it that<br />

I leave you alone for a couple of days while I have a baby, and the next thing I know<br />

a) you've split up with your girlfriend, who I thought you were going to marry<br />

b) you've moved back to your old place in Brooklyn, and<br />

c) you're suddenly the most sought after bachelor in all of North America?<br />

How on earth did you manage to make such a mess out of everything? And what can I<br />

do to help put the pieces back together?<br />

Stace<br />

PS <strong>The</strong> girls are brokenhearted. <strong>The</strong>y were counting on being flower girls.<br />

PPS Thanks for the bracelet. And the baseball rattle is precious.<br />

To: Stacy Trent <br />

From: John Trent <br />

Subject: I blew it<br />

And I'm man enough to admit it.<br />

I don't think there's anything anyone can do to put the pieces together again. She won't<br />

even speak to me. I've tried everything, from flowers to begging. Nothing has worked.<br />

She's furious. It's over. And I can't help thinking it's probably all for the best. I mean,<br />

I'll admit what I did was wrong, but it wasn't as if I set out from the beginning with the<br />

intention of tricking her. Well, okay, I did, but it wasn't as if when I did, I had any idea<br />

I was going to fall in love with her. <strong>The</strong> fact is, I was trying to help a friend. Admittedly,<br />

he's an idiot, but I did owe him one. If she can't understand that, then it's probably better<br />

that we part ways. I can't spend my life with someone who doesn't understand that friends<br />

have to do things for one another that may not be pleasant or even ethical, but that are<br />

necessary, in order to preserve the friendsh--Oh, forget it. I don't even know what I'm saying.<br />

I'm delirious with grief and heartbreak. I wish someone would just shoot me and put me out of

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