Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 3
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there are warning signs
[Read the article: What is your literary deal breaker?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would never dump someone just for reading bestsellers, but choice in books can tell you a lot. One boyfriend had only David Foster Wallace and Nikolai Gogol. I should have realized right then that it would never work.
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So true
[Read the article: I'm a college student with no natural social skills]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My love for Cary continues to grow! This week has been especially good. He's right on the money about introversion.
While working at a bookstore a few years ago, I found a book called Introvert Advantage. Though I still can't think of introversion as any kind of advantage, reading about it totally changed my view of myself. Literally up until that point I had thought of myself as possibly retarded--like in class, when professors would ask me a question (because I had been totally silent up until then) and my mind would go completely blank and dead silence would fill the room. Awful.
Then of course I have always had fantasies about telling noisy extroverts to sit down and shut up already. Maybe the introvert advantage is that you can be a sharp observer, yet avoid saying overly mean things to people.
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Awww
[Read the article: I'm a med student, but my boyfriend has just a high school education]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why couldn't Cary have been this nice to the woman who wondered if her husband was too short for her?
Anyway, spot on. Of course she should stay with this guy! Med students are singularly ambitious and driven, but I think love and relationships require that you use a different part of your brain for evaluation. The worth of the person who is right for you is not about his CV or GPA. Cary was right: if you have confidence in him, than that confidence will radiate to others!