Dear Yenta,
So I recently signed up for an online dating site (“>Facebook friends w/ him—I asked). I’d like to be better friends with him either way, but first have to bridge the awkward divide…
Ideas to write to him? A friend suggested, now that we’re “>www.send-email.org to ask anonymously.
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