TVU Challenge 1017 - Dear Abby
Challenge:
Write an advice seeking letter from a character to an advice columnist, 100-500 words in length
+ Have that columnist reply in a letter of the same 100-500 word length
Okay, this is pathetic. Wish I could have written something funny!
Anna Strong (Turn: Washington's Spies) writes to Dear Abby
Dear Abby
I am in desperate need of your help. Perhaps just writing to you will help me resolve my problem. I hold the life of the man I love in my hands. It is so complicated and impossible. I am caught between my childhood friend whom I have always loved, and this wonderful man who treats me better than I have ever been treated. When he tells me how much he loves me, I can’t help but weep. We will be married soon and I hate that I am living a lie with him. I am a spy for the Continental Army and he is a Major in the King’s army. I had convinced him that we should run away to England, but for some reason he has chosen to become stubborn and says we will be married here. My old friend will kill my love if we stay. What can I do? I am at my wit’s end.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, Anna Strong
Dear Anna
My dear, I think there is only one thing you can do. You must tell your Major who you are. Living a lie will eat away at you. Telling him that your old friend plans to murder him, will just get your friend killed. (I’m assuming that your Major would see to that.) Convince your old friend that killing the Major is a huge mistake and he will hang for it if he’s found out. From reading your other letters I’ve determined that your friend is not a very good spy. He needs guidance. Brokering a truce between the men might be easier than you think.
By the way, aren’t you still married? And isn’t this old friend the one you mentioned passionate encounters with? How does your Major feel about this? Ask yourself these questions and answer honestly whether you’re really doing the best thing by marrying him. What would happen if you reject him? Perhaps he would leave and his life would be saved. You sound like a woman carrying many great weights. You need to lift them.
Write an advice seeking letter from a character to an advice columnist, 100-500 words in length
+ Have that columnist reply in a letter of the same 100-500 word length
Okay, this is pathetic. Wish I could have written something funny!
Anna Strong (Turn: Washington's Spies) writes to Dear Abby
Dear Abby
I am in desperate need of your help. Perhaps just writing to you will help me resolve my problem. I hold the life of the man I love in my hands. It is so complicated and impossible. I am caught between my childhood friend whom I have always loved, and this wonderful man who treats me better than I have ever been treated. When he tells me how much he loves me, I can’t help but weep. We will be married soon and I hate that I am living a lie with him. I am a spy for the Continental Army and he is a Major in the King’s army. I had convinced him that we should run away to England, but for some reason he has chosen to become stubborn and says we will be married here. My old friend will kill my love if we stay. What can I do? I am at my wit’s end.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, Anna Strong
Dear Anna
My dear, I think there is only one thing you can do. You must tell your Major who you are. Living a lie will eat away at you. Telling him that your old friend plans to murder him, will just get your friend killed. (I’m assuming that your Major would see to that.) Convince your old friend that killing the Major is a huge mistake and he will hang for it if he’s found out. From reading your other letters I’ve determined that your friend is not a very good spy. He needs guidance. Brokering a truce between the men might be easier than you think.
By the way, aren’t you still married? And isn’t this old friend the one you mentioned passionate encounters with? How does your Major feel about this? Ask yourself these questions and answer honestly whether you’re really doing the best thing by marrying him. What would happen if you reject him? Perhaps he would leave and his life would be saved. You sound like a woman carrying many great weights. You need to lift them.