Hello Najada, I’m very sorry. Of course, I didn’t want to offend you. I thought this is not your real picture and I hoped (!) it. Because your text is a „landmine“ to your relationship, and by my warning I wanted to avoid this danger for you. You have had more than enough trouble in the last days. :-( In my country, there are many people who revealed personal information on the Internet under their real names/known nicknames/real pictures and regretted it much afterwards. There are so many of them that there’s now even a whole industry of professionals who search and delete such information. They use e.g. a special software that is a search engine for pictures and recognizes faces on the Internet. Probably several hundreds people know you in Moscow, like neighbours, former classmates, etc. Only one of them can come here, see your picture and give your boyfriend a hint. :-( I don’t know how many years italki.com stores your text and picture in its archives, maybe 10 years or so. The second reason why I assumed this is not your real picture is simple: A face like yours, with such a lovely appearance, is really seldom. That‘s why, for instance, Miley Cyrus is such a highly-paid Hollywood star. Please don’t feel offended any more and kind regards :-) Tommy

Tommy, thanks for the picture, opossum ist wunderbar!)) And you was about to offend me saying that the picture is not real. Would you think I'll use somebody else's picture to hide behind it? It's too unfair... It's my picture and my nickname. Not the real name, but people know me under it still... I just know that this site is not popular among my friends and he will never come here, that's it) Can't understand your passion for cows and oxes... Actually, I'm scared to death by them)))) They can really look frightening) And about the day... I don't know what on Earth made this boy tell me about his feelings on Valentine's day. It was just a coincidence indeed... But for me this day is just a bad karma))

In earnest, the timing of your male friend was a big surprise to me. Is there any other day of the year that is even less adequate when it’s about trying to seperate two lovers than Valentine’s Day?

Hello Najada, if you are sure, he doesn’t read your text, it means that your nickname and avatar are not real. That’s good! I have the same carefulness on the Internet: Tommy is not my real name, and my avatar maintains that I‘m a cow and an ox in a Christmas crib but – to tell you the truth – I’m a human being. (The country I live in is pretty modern but not modern enough to grant cows and oxen access to the Internet.) Anyway, they are sort of handicapped with their big hooves when it’s about typing on computer keyboards, I guess. :-) At the moment, it’s an emotional time for you, here’s another handicapped animal in Germany, maybe this picture can make you smile: http://www.rp-online.de/digitale/internet/Heidi-das-schielende-Opossum_bid_61649.html All the best, Tommy

Hello, Tommy. You know, I'm sure that he won't read it, otherwise I would not write it. I just felt that it was necessary for me to write something like this that time. I hope I'll forget about that all soon. And... of course, it can be a problem for our relationships, but I never was unfaithful to my present boyfriend, so I feel quite ok about that exact issue...