Hi, my new friend, Markus!!!!!!!!! I sincerely hope that you still
remember me  and I really have hope that you still
want to learn me, and may be to tell me about yourself because your
answer means for me that your heart openly to search of new friends
just as my heart is open to that. I want to tell, that I was sincerely
glad to receive your answer and I am very grateful to you that you has
not left my letter without your attention. I feel itself a little
awkwardly, going in other part of my letter, because my thoughts and
my desire to find a close friend by such way, mixs with my uncertainty
because of absence of experience in dialogue by such way. How to build
dialogue, what to tell about itself, what questions to ask so that to
not offend by question casually? What is interesting for you first of
all? May be my nationality? Or creed, or may be - those vital
vicissitudes which has led me and you here so that now we write to
each other? Anyhow, to answer all questions, to tell about life, about
internal world just in the one letter is impossibly. Therefore I think
time will help both of us. I will simply begin to tell about myself, -
all that I think is interesting to you. Even being confident that you
remember my name I will tell again. My name is Irina. I am 26 years
old. My birthday is 21 1982. I think Markus, as I have sent you a
pictures, the first thing that you did when have received my letter -
have looked at my picture... Any picture possesses unchallengeable
advantage - ability to tell about the person and about features of
appearance better of any words. But I feel necessity to add some
words. I am little worried that my appearance is not what you are
looking for. But I nevertheless hope to receive your answer where you
will tell that my appearance not the most awful that you saw in your
life:-))). My hair is dark. My eyes are brown. I have average height -
168 sm I think it is 5.53 foots). My weight about 53 kg probably 116
pounds).
Well... Ñulture and distance between us is important for you?? My
nationality is Russian. I am Russian woman, but I as well have red
blood, my heart beats in the same rhythm; and my soul as well needs
warmth and tenderness, just as soul of any woman on a planet Earth.
Maybe you will not write me anymore. But I am sure that the cultural
distinctions are not a barrier for friendship, - on the contrary, I am
sure that distance in the modern world is not more than simply a
length on a map. I sincerely hope that your heart is open to new
people, even if it is a Russian woman who does not live in the street
nearest to your home. And if you still want to communicate with me, it
will mean for me, that the distance and nationality does not limit
border of your soul. And it would be wonderful.
well.. I do not know if you are familiar with geography of Russia. I
live in city Saint Petersburg. It is the big and very beautiful city.
It to be in the European part of Russia, approximately 400 kilometers
from Moscow. Did you visit Russia? Do you love to travel? What
countries do you visited? I never traveled from Russia, but I went in
many cities in Russia. Do you have the Russian friends? I think it's a
time to finish a lesson of geography:-))) And I think that I'll finish
my letter and I'll wait for your answer with impatience....

Irina from Russia

I got exactly same letter and photos 

My friend Markus.  I wait your answer very much. I do not know why you
have not answered me. Maybe you simply have no time. Maybe my letter
has not reached you. . But if the reason because of which you don't
write me is your unwillingness to continue to talk to me, or my
pictures has not satisfied your interest, I ask you to tell me about
it because I still have hope to correspond with you. Forgive me
magnanimously if it looks like absence of patience. I did not want to
irritate you. Simply I am not sure if you have received my letter.
Sincerely. Irina