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It's a very special billboard that inspires one to make a crosstown pilgrimage in the rain. I don't know how Christmas is celebrated in other parts of the country, but here on the North Coast we spend the day gambling and riding around on toy motorcycles, while topless women wash our aluminum siding. Happy Birthday, Jesus!

Also, regular visitors may want to check out a useful new website I discovered, called "The You-Tube." It's hosting a handful of my sweet videos; I just hope the server can handle the resulting torrent of traffic.

A third love letter was received by Ms. Frese several months after returning to the United States.

This second letter from Mr. Darlington was addressed to a "Cleo," presumably because of his trouble pronouncing his ladylove's actual name, "Claire."

In early 2000, Ms. Claire Frese, a student at the College of Wooster, spent a semester abroad in Zimbabwe. Among her admirers was a neighbor, a man named Mr. Darlington, who proposed marriage frequently--despite the fact that he was already happily married.