Troubling article published in the Kuwait Times. Lynn, Anna and Isabel, three divorced women hailing from different corners of the globe who now call Kuwait home, have one thing in common: they built a dream for living happily ever after meeting their soul mates in cyberspace. In an odd twist their dreams for family ended with a broken heart and for Isabel with financial loss.
Allan Straus, seemed like the best thing that ever happened to her - an engineer with a good job on an oil rig in the UK, financial independence and a five-year old daughter whom he was raising alone. “He sounded like a very warm individual who was searching for his soul mate after losing his spouse,” Lynn recalls.
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A site called ‘The Rumpus’ is offering something novel in this digital age. It’s called Letters in the Mail. Almost every week you’ll receive a letter, in the mail. Letter writers will include Dave Eggers, Marc Maron, Stephen Elliott, Janet Fitch, Nick Flynn, Margaret Cho, Cheryl Strayed, Wendy MacNaughton, Emily Gould, Tao Lin, and Jonathan Ames. Think of it as the letters you used to get from your creative friends, before this whole internet/email thing.
