WORDPLAY July, 2013 | Page 12

Along with the hashish, the marijuana, and the amphetamine-injecting sessions, the beer, wine, and vodka, and the sitting around naked and threeand four-way group sex, you might be looking for European or US nationality to protect you from today ‟ s hard times.
You surf around for weeks. You force yourself to learn a bunch of the foreign lingo in use. You resort to various bilingual dictionaries and the might of Google search. You join foreign groups and participate on various topics in an effort to make friends. But whenever you send a friend request, no matter the language— English or French, or even Italian, Spanish, or Russian— there ‟ s never a response.
This thought keeps repeating:“ You’ re Jack the Ripper and you long to kill all the girls on the face of the Earth.” Finally, you get a response from Linda.
She ‟ s an American studying economics at AUC. She ‟ s stark naked in her profile picture. You try and find something out about her, or another picture, but you can ‟ t. You try again to get her to reply. You ‟ ve put your money on her, and it ‟ s clear you ‟ ll win the bet if you go about it the right way.

Along with the hashish, the marijuana, and the amphetamine-injecting sessions, the beer, wine, and vodka, and the sitting around naked and threeand four-way group sex, you might be looking for European or US nationality to protect you from today ‟ s hard times.

You surf around for weeks. You force yourself to learn a bunch of the foreign lingo in use. You resort to various bilingual dictionaries and the might of Google search. You join foreign groups and participate on various topics in an effort to make friends. But whenever you send a friend request, no matter the language— English or French, or even Italian, Spanish, or Russian— there ‟ s never a response.

This thought keeps repeating:“ You’ re Jack the Ripper and you long to kill all the girls on the face of the Earth.” Finally, you get a response from Linda.

She ‟ s an American studying economics at AUC. She ‟ s stark naked in her profile picture. You try and find something out about her, or another picture, but you can ‟ t. You try again to get her to reply. You ‟ ve put your money on her, and it ‟ s clear you ‟ ll win the bet if you go about it the right way.

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