The first thing you need to know about Lori is that normally she's not the kind of girl who does this sort of thing at all.
She doesn't write to strangers.
She doesn't do fan mail.
But she was looking at,
you know the page in certain magazines where they have the little pictures of the people who write for the magazine?
She was looking at that.
And she saw the photo of this writer who she liked.
The picture was blurry, but he had this intense look in his eye.
And you could tell he was smart and cute, both at the same time.
But I saw this picture and I was like, That guy's my soulmate.
I know that's completely insane,
but I knew that I could not not contact him because I would always regret it if I didn't.
So I wrote this letter to the magazine, you know,
to him, care of the magazine, and I made up a story.
I said, I think that, you know, I know this is going to sound really weird,
but I saw your picture on the contributors page and you look exactly like this guy that I met in the airport years ago.
This is, this is a complete lie.
Right.
So I said, you know, we,
I was changing planes and you were going into one gate and I was going into another and we struck up this conversation and you were talking about how you wanted to become a writer.