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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: June 28, 2002
June 28, 2002 – 10:31 AM | No Comment

Sars,
I am a 21-year-old male college junior, on the ugly side of average, and generally pretty nondescript.Two years ago, I was diagnosed with social phobia.I’ve taken three medicines for this and gone to both individual …

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: May 30, 2002
May 30, 2002 – 12:42 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars —
Since I think your advice is pretty grand, I thought I’d pose you my little dilemma. When I was a first year at my university, I became friends with a group of …

The Vine: May 21, 2002
May 21, 2002 – 4:49 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
I’m easily irritated at certain grammatical mistakes. “You’re” and “your” are two different things! However, I can’t be a grammatical snob since I have one problem involving bad and badly. It is absolutely …

The Vine: May 14, 2002
May 14, 2002 – 11:06 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
I have this friend and it seems like she is trying to avoid me. She is hanging out with people I don’t like and tries to make me hang out with them too. I …

The Vine: April 16, 2002
April 16, 2002 – 5:08 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
I have a psycho neighbor. He lives in the apartment under me. The building is not well constructed and I have an idea that insulation was unknown to whoever did the actual construction. I …