I Guess Everyone Needs A Penpal

Monday, February 12, 2007

Along with her cell phone, Megan (12, going on dangerous) also has her own domain name, friends-only blog and email address. In an effort to keep her safe, I set the site and email up with the explicit agreement that I would, on occasion, monitor her activity while respecting her privacy as much as possible. A girl's got to be able to bitch about her parents to her friends without fear of reprimand or arranged marriage to a General Authority, afterall.

Occasional monitoring means checking her blog for spammers, sex offenders, Republicans and other such deviants. It also means manually scanning her email from time to time for questionable messages, just to be sure she's not sneaking around selling herself into Bosnian slavery without giving me my commission and stuff like that. Unless there is a questionable title, unrecognized sender/recipient or some other red flag, I don't read the actual content of her correspondence.

I made an exception when I saw the following in her sent items folder.

Subject: your ugly
From: ********@********.***
Date: Fri, February 2, 2007 8:35 pm
To: strongbad@homestarrunner.com

Hi Strongbad. your ugly.

love *****

I love this girl more than I will ever be able to express.

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