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In the tradition of the Claire Swire embarrassment of 2000, the Peter Chung scandals of 2001, and the Jacqueline Kim infamy of 2002 comes this latest entry in the Internet's ongoing How to Broadcast Embarrassing Details About Your Love Life to Millions of Strangers All Over the Planet contest. This contestant's submission began appearing in inboxes around the globe in September 2002, as usual prefaced by a server-choking list of e-mail addresses and added comments from people who have passed it along to an ever-widening circle of recipients. The setup in this example is that a woman, Mary Callahan, receives an innocuous e-mail greeting from a fellow, Tripp Murray, whom she'd met the week before. Mary, seeking to help out a friend in need of company, forwards Tripp's message to a girlfriend of hers and suggests the three of them go out for drinks; Tripp will be happy to agree to this scheme and spring for their drinks to boot, Mary confides, because since we have not slept together, he will of course be trying to impress me and will, therefore, do anything I ask. Mary also confides to her girlfriend the embarrassing detail that her previous night's date had fallen asleep while they were having sex, an event she describes as a new low. However, Mary doesn't pass Tripp's message and her added commentary along to her girlfriend as she intended — she accidentally forwards them to Tripp himself! Is this, like the other examples linked in the opening paragraph, a bona fide gaffe, or is it, like 1999's Bryan Winter revenge tale, a likely fabrication? We don't know yet. The e-mail addresses and phone numbers included in the text are indeed valid, but we've been unsuccessful so far in eliciting any confirmatory information from the people behind them. As an Internet sage warned, though:
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