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The Vine: November 13, 2001
November 13, 2001 – 8:57 PM | No Comment

For all of my 16 years, I’ve been known as the boyfriendless wonder. Well, I can’t say the same for my friends. They each go and get their boyfriends, and do the whole random hook-ups …

The Vine: November 1, 2001
November 1, 2001 – 2:15 PM | No Comment

Hey there, Sars.
Just read your response to “Considering,” the girl whose roommate is so very annoying.Usually I agree with your Vine advice, but this time, I’ve got to take issue with your solution. I lived …

The Vine: October 31, 2001
October 31, 2001 – 11:41 PM | No Comment

Ah, porn.Everyone’s got an opinion about it.
If you recall, I ran a letter from a woman who didn’t know whether she should tell her former semi-friend about the former semi-friend’s fiancé’s incest-porn habit, and I …

The Vine: October 24, 2001
October 24, 2001 – 11:32 PM | No Comment

Re: books about baseball.
I also suggest all of W.P. Kinsella’s novels and short stories that have to do with baseball.I’m not a huge baseball fan, but my dad was —
Kinsella’s baseball books make me all …

The Vine: October 17, 2001
October 17, 2001 – 11:19 PM | No Comment

Sars, I love your work, et cetera.
Here’s my problem, and it’s a fatal one:
I’m currently apartment/cat/fish-sitting for two friends of mine.Everything has gone fairly well.The cats and I play and sleep together, I’ve watered everything …

The Vine: September 19, 2001
September 19, 2001 – 8:57 PM | One Comment

I met a guy through a personal ad. We emailed and IM’ed each other for a month or so, but because we live about an hour away from each other we didn’t meet until recently. …

The Vine: July 17, 2001
July 17, 2001 – 11:10 AM | No Comment

Two months ago, my boyfriend of two and a half years, with whom I had been living for a year, broke up with me, claiming we had become incompatible sexually, which he felt would never …

The Vine: June 26, 2001
June 26, 2001 – 10:12 AM | No Comment

Sarah,
My good friend D and I (we are housemates in college) decided to live in DC
this summer, in a group house with a bunch of other people from our school. While we got off to …

The Vine: June 21, 2001
June 21, 2001 – 4:05 PM | No Comment

Hey Sars,
I’ve got a question involving housing for the summer. This summer, my two best friends and I found out that we all have internships in our hometown.We didn’t really feel like living with our …

The Vine: June 6, 2001
June 6, 2001 – 12:39 PM | No Comment

Hi Sarah,
When I read The Vine (as I love to do and you’ve even printed one of my letters) and I saw the letter from Bitter Bridesmaid, it really struck a note with me.I had …