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Understanding Guys Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Dear Darla, in order to interact with guys generally, in order to date one of them and in

order to marry one, it is highly recommended that you have some understanding of what you

are getting into.

Now, in order to explain to you what you are getting into, I am going to have to generalize.

There is nothing wrong with this, so long as you realize that there are exceptions and

that life is not always tidy, and you should not clutch at any generalization, however accurate

it might be as though we are a theorem out of euclid about triangles having three sides.

Triangles always have three sides.

Guys are not always the way I will describe for you, but they are usually that way.

So budget for exceptions will at the same time expect my descriptions to come true right

before your very eyes.

Guys are simple, in a way that women are not.

Consequently, you will be tempted to over-analyze everything, and you are accustomed to things

being complicated.

You have adjusted to those complications, and you think they are normal.

You think that guys are doing the same thing.

You analyze his brief comment, that comment with a thousand possible meanings, when it

was just a brief comment.

When I say that guys are simple, I am not saying that they are stupid.

They are very intelligent and can win wars and send people to the moon and build smartphones

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