The novel an Online Dating Adventure with a divine ending written by a Vietnamese-American author, Thanh-Tam Le (fictionalized name) tells about the true story of the author. Tam, that’s how the author calls himself, is a 40 year-old divorced man. He had no serious date in the latest 7 years. One day he met a 28 year-old unmarried Vietnamese-American girl, Annie (fictionalized name), online. He thought she was cute. He let himself fall in love with her at the first sight and wanted to be in a serious relationship with her, even he’d never met her in person.
I could see that Tam enjoyed his chatting with Annie at first, but then time went by, I think he lost his mind and became unstable. He thought that the relationship he’s hoping wouldn’t work out. The age gap was really a big deal for him. He tried to give up chatting sometimes. He also emailed her to tell that he couldn’t continue their virtual friendship; however, Annie kept leading him on that he kept in touch with her. Day after day, Tam was getting more unstable and couldn’t prevent himself from falling deeper. Again, he sent her a farewell email; on the other hand, he didn’t want to give up his virtual dating with her. Then, he still wrote her email. This unstable manner of his may have made her tired of him. Since then, she did never show up or even reply his email. Tam kept emailing her some hoping she would reply, but she didn’t.
I think Tam was not really in love with her. Instead, he’s just obsessed with her. I’m the one of those who doesn’t believe love at the first sight. It was just too silly to me. How could he love a girl by only seeing a picture on the cyberspace? Or even if he’d met her in person, still I wouldn’t have believed love at the first sight.
I come to my conclusion that what Tam had been through was not really a love. He was just too excited when he met Annie after his being 7 year-single. Somehow, being single for such a long time was not good for him. And that may be the reason why he was so unstable.
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