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The Vine: July 19, 2002
July 19, 2002 – 12:00 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
I don’t particularly condone Ms. Edgar Allan Poe’s actions, but it occurs to me that a semi-easy way to clear the air with her friend would be to call her friend and say that …

The Vine: July 12, 2002
July 12, 2002 – 10:19 AM | No Comment

Sars,
You mentioned in your response to “Been There, Done That” that you had to acknowledge at some point that you’d “make a sucky reporter.” If you don’t mind using Vine space to talk a bit …

The Vine: July 11, 2002
July 11, 2002 – 4:29 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
I felt just like Go Back for four years when I went through B.S., round one. My undergraduate institution sucked the joy of science right out of me. But I was able to renew …

The Vine: July 3, 2002
July 3, 2002 – 3:35 PM | No Comment

Sars, I love your advice, and while I think you were essentially correct with No Clever, there’s a lot between the lines in her letter. And I have to disagree that it’s not about fairness. …

The Vine: July 2, 2002
July 2, 2002 – 3:24 PM | No Comment

Hey Sars,
I’ve been with my boyfriend for well over a year, and for some reason (neither of us knows how it came up, quite frankly), we’ve been discussing having a threesome with another girl. I …

The Vine: June 27, 2002
June 27, 2002 – 10:20 AM | No Comment

Sars,
This may not be a topic worth revisiting, but I thought I’d share what my friends and I did in our four-bedroom, five-person setup (one engaged couple plus three other people). We had initially agreed …

The Vine: June 26, 2002
June 26, 2002 – 10:14 AM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
I would really like an outsider’s opinion on my current situation.I have recently moved in with three friends, two girls and a guy.One of the girls is my fiancée, and we share a bedroom …

The Vine: June 25, 2002
June 25, 2002 – 10:10 AM | No Comment

Dear Sars:
I have a very unique and eternally irritating problem. It isn’t a new sort of issue. It’s a fairly old and long-lived issue. It’s only now that I have realized that, if I …

The Vine: June 19, 2002
June 19, 2002 – 3:22 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
Generally, I really dig your advice and think that it’s spot-on.I read Little Miss Purity’s letter waiting for the sort of verbal smacks you usually hand out to people who don’t understand where their …

The Vine: June 11, 2002
June 11, 2002 – 2:10 PM | No Comment

Sars,
You advised Monk, who’s looking to start a relationship with the guy who just broke up with his girlfriend, to “get out of it now” and that “he’s had no time to process the end …