March 2, 1997
To: Lisa?

?@aol.com
From: ChrisW31______@ aol. com
Hey, bitch. Are you on AOL? I'm spending way to many hours at night searching profiles of people who look like they might be you, only to end up DMing them and finding out it's not you.
Which I admit is strange--I know you work at Connecticut Mutual in the Investment Department. I could just call you during the work day. Or call your number at night or on a weekend or holiday and leave you a voice mail. Something like, "I think it's time--past time--that you and I meet and settle this sleeping-with-Tom situation. Or at least find out who the Alpha Mistress is."
For some reason, I would have no problem doing that if I knew what your personal email address was. I know companies read work emails, so I'm not going to do it there. But inhibitions come off on AOL. I've even heard people log onto here as different personas, or even the opposite gender.
So why do I keep doing it? Why do I keep writing snail mail letters and not sending them? Why am I starting to write email drafts to someone whose email address I don't know?
Part of it is, admittedly, sad. I do it to fill in the emptiness of being a mistress to a New York investment banker who compartimentalizes to a degree that's borderline sociopathic. How the hell does he hang out with his wife and four kids knowing he's been fucking you and me on the side since high school?? Maybe the question answers itself. Maybe that's the only way to cope with four kids (and counting, from what I understand--his wife must have some sort of magic uterus). Great for him--but what am I supposed to do when I get on MetroNorth and go back home to my empty apartment? I can only masturbate to the memories of him and I doing it for so long.
So that's part of it.
But another part of it has nothing to do with him at all. It has to do with you. I know you're somehow still seeing him. Even though you're 31 years old and have been in a couple of relationships. Did those relationships end because of Tom? Could the guys you were dating tell that you weren't committing to them? Or were you the roadblock?
Were you disappointed that the sex with them wasn't as good as it was with Tom? Were their cocks smaller than Tom's?
I guess what I'm saying is--WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO FUCK OFF SO I CAN HAVE TOM TO MYSELF?? Between his own family--understandable--and you--NOT UNDERSTANDABLE--there's not enough days in the year left available for Tom and me. NOT COOL. I keep waiting for you to FUCKING GO AWAY.
So I write these letters telling you to do so. And I end up deciding to NOT SEND THEM. Reverse psychology, I think. If she knows I want her to fade into the background, she'll stick around just to spite me. So I don't end up sending them.
Is that true, btw? Are you sticking around just to spite me?
Because, if you are ..... well, that's a pretty bitchy thing to do.
Bitch.
Toodles xoxo,
Chrstine
August 2, 1997
Tanglewood, MA
Dear Christine,
Hey, tramp. I usually think of you when I'm sad or bored. Especially bored. Something about your dull, uncultured, secretary brain sets me off. More on that later.
But today I'm HAPPY ..... and just had to tell you--rub it in your face. Ooooooooo - a sexual allusion. I must have just had break-the-doors-down sex for 2 days. Oh, that's right!!! I did!!!! With Tom!!!!
He used his Merrill Lynch season pass to Tanglewood to invite me--me!!! not you!!! hah!--to listen to the Boston Pops for 2 days. (Tanglewood is the place in the Berkshires where they play every summer. I doubt you knew that. See above.)
And then to fuck each others' brains out at night!!!
So ... eat your heart out bitch!! I'm sure he'll be ditching your sorry, vapid, boring ass soon.
Get a dictionary if you don't know what vapid means, slut.
Love,
Lisa