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The Vine: October 2, 2002
October 2, 2002 – 7:30 PM | No Comment

Dude.Check it out.
Here’s my letter to Quoi Faire?, which ran on August 21, 2002.Here’s the Annie’s Mailbox version (that’s Ann Landers’s daughter or successor or whoever), which ran yesterday.
It’s obviously the same letter; Annie edited …

The Vine: September 4, 2002
September 4, 2002 – 1:58 PM | No Comment

Hi Sars,
Add me to the countless people who felt the just had to fire up Outlook to respond to your advice to NNV. I actually agree with you whole-heartedly, but I had to add this: …

The Vine: September 3, 2002
September 3, 2002 – 1:53 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
My problem is this.When I was in high school, I dated a guy for about five
months.It was a very intense relationship, so you can imagine my surprise
when he broke up with me, out of …

The Vine: August 14, 2002
August 14, 2002 – 10:20 PM | No Comment

I’ve been so impressed with your Vine advice that I’ve sometimes wished I had a problem just so I could see what you would tell me to do. Now I have that problem. Wishes suck.
I …

The Vine: August 6, 2002
August 6, 2002 – 4:00 PM | No Comment

Sars,
I’m a 22-year-old virgin who has absolutely no desire to have sex. I’ve had two boyfriends in my life, one when I was 17 and one when I was 20, but again, no desire to …

The Vine: July 26, 2002
July 26, 2002 – 1:45 PM | No Comment

Hey Sars,
I had a cat that also loved nothing more than peeing and/or crapping on the bathmat, but the bathmat ONLY. The vet remarked that the rubber backing on bathmats smells like ammonia to cats, …

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: May 8, 2002
May 8, 2002 – 8:53 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
My boyfriend and I have been dating for about a year and living together for about five months.I’m madly in love with him.From the very beginning, we’ve been best friends as well as lovers …

The Vine: February 22, 2002
February 22, 2002 – 2:24 PM | One Comment

Dear Sars,
I have never asked for advice before, so here goes. I deeply care for this guy; in fact I think he may be the one, but I have deep commitment issues in the sense …