"(It's strange, because I don't know you at all, but you'd never have struck me as a nine. I don't know why, but you struck me as the type that doesn't take crap from anyone and stuff. Fiiiiiierce, Tyra Banks would say. Maybe even kinda badass.)

You e-mail really touched me, by the way. Sometimes I forget I'm not the ONLY person in the world who struggles a lot with self esteem."