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Subject: RE: Brinkley
Date: 9/16/98 7:28:50 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Shopgirl
To: NY152
I like to start my notes to you as if we're already in the middle of a conversation. I pretend that we're the oldest and dearest friends -- as opposed to what we actually are, people who don't know each other's names and met in a Chat Room where we both claimed we'd never been before.
What will he say today, I wonder. I turn on my computer, I wait impatiently as it boots up. I go on line, and my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: You've got mail.
I hear nothing, not even a sound on the streets of New York, just the beat of my own heart. I have mail. From you.
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Date: 9/29/98 7:50:21 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: NY152
To: Shopgirl
My father is getting married again. For five years he's been living with a woman who studied decorating at Caesar's Palace.
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Date: 9/30/98 7:52:20 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: Shopgirl
To: NY152
Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today I saw one. It got on at 42nd and off at 59th, where I assume it was going to Bloomingdale's to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake. As almost all hats are.
Subject: H&H
Date: 10/05/98 9:46:12 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: NY152
To: Shopgirl
Did you know that every night a truck pulls up to H&H Bagels and pumps about a ton of flour into underground tanks? The air is filled with white dust, and it's absolutely amazing.
Subject: Pride and Prejudice
Date: 10/15/98 8:15:42 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Shopgirl
To: NY152
Confession. I have read Pride & Prejudice about 200 times. I get lost in the language. Words like "thither", "mischance", "felicity." I'm always in agony over whether Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are really going to get together. Read it. I know you'll love it.
Subject: Starbucks
Date: 10/20/98 10:11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: NY152
To: Shopgirl
The whole purpose of places like Starbuck's is for people with no decision making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!
Subject: life
Date: 10/21/98 9:18:36 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Shopgirl
To: NY152
Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life. Well, valuable, but small. And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So goodnight, dear void.
Subject:
Date: 10/31/98 11:10:38 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: NY152
To: Shopgirl
Do you ever feel you become the worst version of yourself? That a Pandora's Box of all the secret hateful parts -- your arrogance, your spite, your condescension -- has sprung open. Someone provokes you, and instead of just smiling and moving on, you zing them. Hello, it's Mr. Nasty. I'm sure you have no idea what I'm talking about.
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Date: 10/31/98 4:50:11 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Shopgirl
To: NY152
No, I know what you mean and I'm completely jealous. What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied. My mind goes blank. Then... then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said. What should I have said, for example, to the bottom dweller who recently belittled my existence. Even now, days later, I can't figure it out.
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Date: 11/1/98 8:27:18 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: NY152
To: Shopgirl
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could pass all my zingers to you and then I would never behave badly and you could behave badly all the time and we'd both me happy? But then, on the other hand, I must warn you that when you finally have the pleasure of saying the thing you mean to say the moment you mean to say it, remorse inevitably follows. Do you think we should meet?
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