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LW, If you ever write another letter to an advice columnist (I know, I know), remember... your first mistake was opening your original letter to Cary with an insult to Cary. We like Cary. Viewing Cary as a "last resort" that you're "desperate enough" to consider is just insulting, and calling him a fellow dreamer doesn't make it better. It makes it sound like you're seeking life altering advice from a crazy person living in the woods behind your house.
I can't say that opening that way accounts for all of the stuff you're seeing in these letters, but I think it contributed to it because it made you sound arrogant and rude. So people read you as arrogant and rude through the whole letter. Know what I mean? It put a certain spin on things. I'd be careful with that sort of thing... that's why they say sit on angry emails at least 24 hours before putting them out. ;)
