{"id":281,"date":"2006-03-15T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T14:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/03\/15\/a-missed-opportunity\/"},"modified":"2006-03-15T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T14:55:49","slug":"a-missed-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/03\/15\/a-missed-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Missed Opportunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few days I go I arrived at work to find the following email (I’ve removed the sender’s name….I’m courteous like that):<\/P>
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My name is XXXX – 1 L in section XX (went to Yale for undergrad). I am not sure if we ever met, like at BLSA events or not, but I have a question for you (and feel free to ignore etc if it seems invasive). The thing is, I have a really good friend who met you briefly once a while back and has since then retained an interest in you. He is not a student at HLS but lives Boston\/Cambridge area, awesome guy (cute, sweetheart\/gentleman kind of guy-no sleeze ball or anything like that). Anyhow, he had asked me if I knew you, when I mentioned I did not, he asked if I would mind contacting you on his behalf.<\/FONT><\/P>
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So, hope you don’t mind that I did. He just wanted to know if you were like taken, seeing someone etc and to hint that he would be really interested in possibly meeting you again or perhaps having a phone conversation etc if you were not taken and were interested in meeting him.<\/FONT><\/P>
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Thanks for your time. I hope this email was not too forward or repulsive ( He is just a great guy – I had to take him up on the request to see if you were seeing someone\/not interested etc).<\/FONT><\/P>
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How flattered I was to think that I might have a secret admirer! Alas, it was sent to me in error. There is a female student at Harvard with a VERY similar email address as me and this message was intended for her. The fellow in question, despite being “cute, sweetheart\/gentleman”, is apparently straight (of course I replied to the sender to find out – I didn’t want to be rude) and I will never know whether he was the one for me or not.<\/P>
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Oh well. Life goes on.<\/P>
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