Originally posted by Esprit Dear God it gets worse! A couple of nights restricted by impotence followed by poetry and soul searching. The women are gonna love this novel because the man is not interested in plunging the depths of her love pudding but rather mind melting into her very essence; getting his gratification from knowing the real woman that yearns to be discovered. In the final chapter the transient medical problem is resolved - doggy fashion. Of course there could be an alternate ending albeit dramatic like say, ending up a floating corpse wrapped in barbed wire when the father of the child gets out of prison and discovers the love fest. Or the transient problem turns out to be leprosy when everything falls off and the poetry is not enough to sustain the passion.

Unfortunately the tale is so outlandish that we all would like to believe it's true.  However, I still think that we are dealing with a troll.

Originally posted by Steven Unfortunately the tale is so outlandish that we all would like to believe it's true.  However, I still think that we are dealing with a troll.

Steven

I think you're right but still there's some clarifying work to do with all he keeps repeating.

Squiddie, I have a story to share with you. I am a Brazilian woman and had a thing with a gringo once when I went to Canada. He was a Canadian with Italian origin. I spoke little English at the time but could understand a little more. We would talk in English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.  He couldn't understand a squat about my background and life back in Brazil, yet it felt he understood me a little in person, maybe I made myself very clear through my attitudes LOL! There was this easiness of staying together, an "intimacy" between us and an inevitable urge of staying together. The sweetness, the kindness, even the awkward moments swept me off my feet, I have to admit. The thingy didn't work out, nor should, we lived too different and distant worlds that touched each other for a brief moment. In romances strangers idealize each other that's why it's called romance. The day to day is the only test you can expect to know what it's going to be.

Thanks Charlotte for your helpful comments. Yes, I never really bought the favela thing, periferada is a better way to put it. I got so much negative "advice" from people like in this forum, lots to work through and overcome all that negativity. But every step of the way this girl has shown me how much better she is than any of the preconceived ideas the these internet "advisors" maintained so strongly. This is why I don't take any of this vicious ranting against me seriously, because people who do that always tend to stigmatize everything in broad strokes.

Not sure what you meant with your comment on being abroad and talking in Portuguese on MSN. Yes, it is good, but I guess you were also being cynical? Always doubting first, eh? Could not be that she was in a country near France whose language I happen not to speak? No, it's always best to assume the worst. I now understand why she has been so adamant to show me evidence corroborating her story, it seems like these people are struggling against a constant stigmatization as liars and gringo-chasing piranhas.

What really intrigues me on this forum though is that people here are so paranoid about "trolls" and "spam", especially since I don't find any example of "trolling" and "spamming" in other posts that I read, yet constantly people are attacking each other of "trolling" or "spamming". May be we all need a "shrink". I'm so puzzled why many here can just take everything and put their negative smear over it, and even the ones who sometimes are helpful, seem to be very shy at that, lest they might appear as "not cool". Now it becomes clear to me, this is reminiscent of a school yard where people try to get applause for being the one who can ridicule another person the best, and even the nicer people can't help but applaud. What a dynamic.

Anyway, despite the cynicism and put-downs that people throw at me here, there is occasionally the piece of really helpful information. So, thanks. (Esprit's latest collation of my quotes is quite intriguing, nice work.)


Edited by Squiddie - 01 July 2010 at 17:15