Dear Raven,

You know Raven, I recently realized that I can learn all the lessons in the world, but it doesn’t matter if I cant put them into practice. I am done trying to fastrack our relationship. I know you are a naturally sheepish individual in person, and that I haven’t done the best job portraying myself as a sane individual. So I will dump hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours into earning your trust by gaming and chatting with you. When you finally feel comfortable seeing me in person, we will go on a very public and very casual date, with a friend of yours as a chaperon if you wish. Then, we will go on a second, less casual, but still public, and very romantic date. You can bring a chaperone to that one too if you want. After that, you get to test me. You are going to pick our next 3 dates. And you are going to judge my performance on those 3 dates. If you still like me after all 3, you gotta at least consider dating me. Im not gonna pressure you into doing anything you dont wanna do. I know what you like afterall. You are worth waiting for. Anything I’ve said to the contrary was a very ineffective poker bluff. I mean I’m still here.