I'm Going To Die Alone I'M GOING TO DIE ALONE Those are the words I typed in to my favorite search engine on a rather melancholy day. To my surprise what popped up was your web page filled with stories of my life (minus the Jewish part) in your syndicated column. I am now officially an addict. I have spent the last 2 days, at work I might add, scouring the web for more of your stories in an effort to keep alive the feeling that somewhere out in the universe another soul is leading a life as steeped in traumatic experience and introspection as mine. Thank you for having the guts to air your dirty laundry to the world. It takes a backbone of steel to put your most personal feelings into print, and you do so with style and eloquence. If you happen to know if a more extensive collection of your writing is available on the web please let me know where I can find it. I am 20 something, single, and I live in the small town where I was born which means I usually spend most of my evenings at home, the monotony broken only by sporadic dating and the random friend that happens to have a night off. I dread leaving the house for fear I may run into the inevitable "Polly Perfect" from high school at the grocery store, and spend thirty minutes of pure agony hearing about her husband, children, and how all around great her life is now that she is married. There aren't many of us 20 something singles in this town, it being on the outskirts of the Bible belt in the deep South where you get married right out of highschool, stay barefoot and pregnant until 30, and spend the rest of your life in devotion to your family ( this consisting of gaining fourty pounds, eating bon-bons on the sofa, and watching re-runs of Jerry Springer while waiting for your kids to get home from school so you can do laundry and cook dinner). I say no thank you. I would rather live in solitude and become the "crazy cat lady" in my old age, much to the distress of my mother who upon meeting my last boyfriend/almost fiancee' held up one of my cousin's children and said "I want some of these". Now I'm rambling. Anyway please keep up the columns... some of us actually DO like you. Andrea Home Syndicated Column News Archive Good Day New York While You Were Out Lovers Lounge Fashion Police Photo Gallery Video Gallery Mailing List Books and Music Resume