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Gentlemen, you can't 'buy' a woman

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When I was very young and in that ‘in-between-school-and-college’ period about 20 years ago, I fell deeply into infatuation with a girl, my friend *Len, nicknamed ‘Sue Bae’ (in what must be visionary in as far as monikers go).

Sue Bae, in my world, was the very model of sophistication. She was shapely, with a sweet smile and sexy eyes, worked (as a receptionist) at Wilson Airport and was ‘worldly wise’ aka five years older than I. I was absolutely smitten, and since in those days I was also an entrepreneur (computer software) alongside my techno-savvy high school mates (and we wanted to be local Billies Gates), I had resources to pamper Sue Bae.

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