Hello dear Jeff,
It's very nice to meet you!!!!!!!! It seems like a miracle that people invented this way of communication for people who live far from each other or even in different parts of the world! That's really great. And also it great hat it gave us the opportunity to meet, and I hope that we will have nice conversations and maybe one day we will meet what do you think about that?????? Stop Lena (that's my short name and friends usually call me like that. So I hope that we will become friends and if you want you may call me like that, OK?????) or you can go on this topic for a very long time. And now I hope that you still want to know something about me, without paying attention to my talking :)))))))))!!!!!!! So, about me... I think that I'm an open-minded person and I like to communicate with different people very much, among my friends there are very various people, they differ in age - beginning from 5 till ... - and in their social position. I simply don't pay attention to these silly differences that were invented by some people who had nothing to do, they were just having fun, or they were making money on it - nobody knows and let's forget about them. Please don't think hat I'm a chatter-box, no I'm not, just I wanted to give you at least an idea of who I am. As I said I have a lot of friends, but I also try to make new friends and I hope that we will become good friends, only of course if you don't mind, do you :))))?????? No I will stop here, and I want to ask you one thing. Please ask me questions it will be easier to communicate, don't you think so???? And I promise to answer all of them honestly. Waiting for your letter impatiently, Yours Elena.

Hello dear Jeff,
thank you very much for the nice letter!!! It was so interesting to read about you!!!! You know there's one thing I would like to ask you...I would like to see your photo...can you send it to me to this e-mail address...you know I ask about this just because it'll be much easier for me to put your words to your face...OK??? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!! :))) Thank ou for liking the language this letter is written, but it's not my English it's the language of the girl who translates it for me...I hope that it's not a problem??? Oh, that would be so great to meet in person!!! I do sports when I have a mood, I do some aerobics, and jogging, and swimming and play table tennis, and thanks to it I keep in shape, thank you for your kind words!!!:))) I also try to avoid eating a lot of bread, as bread is very harmfull to figure, not some cookies or something like that, but usual bread, and macaroni... I've never been to any other foreign country...just didn't have an opportunity... Well, I was thinking about leaving this country...but I had nobody to come to... Yours Lena. -- Is provided by translation agency Slavonic Beauty http://www.agentstvd.cjb.net mailto:office@agentstvd.cjb.net

Hello dear Jeff!!!
It's so great to hear from you!!! Yes, it's very bad that we were not together then...so we could both work very hard, just as you did on that photo!!! :))) Well, I have some small secrets how to keep in shape... Yes, I like sea very much and I like to swim there and just to enjoy the sound of it and the sunrise over the sea...unfortunately I can't see such a wonder very often...only from time to time...but anyway I remember all of them!!! :))) I've never been to any other country before...just wasn't lucky!!! Yo9u know I thought over your words about leaving the home country...yes it's very bad to leave your close people and friends, but there'll be more close people and friends...and besides what can wait for me here??? No job, no family nothing!!! If you want to get a job, go and sleep with the director...and that's not for me...I want to work, and I can't...isn't it??? You know I think that I would prefer to find the differences in the foreign country then to give up here... Why I'm still single??? You have already answered your questions...just because I'm too intellegent for our men...they wish to have someone not very clever and who will think that he's the best man in the whole world!!! And to love him doing every single step...and to say that saying rude and bad words is the best habit on Earth!!! And things like that!!! Isn't this awfull??? I didn't mean to be so serious...:))))) Yours Lena. PS: My postal address is kv. Vostochniy, 20/311 Lugansk 91000 Ukraine. -- Is provided by translation agency Slavonic Beauty http://www.agentstvd.cjb.net mailto:office@agentstvd.cjb.net

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Hello my dear Jeff!!!
I'm very very happy that you liked my photo!!! You're so romantic!!! I'm sure that we'll have a great and really wonderful time together!!! I'm really so excited!!! You know sometimes it seams to me that it's not true and just a dream...and that I'll wake up and everything will be gone...and what will be left only memories...but then I remember you and I feel that it's not a dream, but a reality and somehow I'm in this!!! :))) I've found out some information and I want you to know it also. To make the international passport and visa for me will take some time, so if we want to meet in April I already have to give the documents to get them ready. To make the passport it costs 100 $ and it'll take a month to make it. To make a visa - 200 $. The return ticket to Boston normally costs 1,903 $. But there's a good news, in April there'll be an exchange of students with the USA and if I'll be lucky to get involved there then there'll be discounts, and rather big. So, the ticket to Boston and back will cost about 750 - 800 $. So that's it...this is all I know and as I promised everything that I'll find out you'll know very fast!!! With kisses Yours Lena. -- Is provided by the translation agency Slavonic Beauty

Hello my dear Jeff!!!
Thank you for the lovely letter!!! I also can't wait to see you, but there're some things that we'll have to get over together!!! You see, I don't have an international passport and that's why I can't book tickets. T do that I need an internatinal passport and a visa. So the best thing will be to do the transfer in 2 stages??? You see, I'll start making documents then. You know in 2 weeks we'll elect a mayer of the town, and there're big problems with this elections, so everybody has a lot of work to do, and that's why I don't know how much time I'll nees to make the documents, so to be in time I'll have to start making documents as soon as possible!!! Passport and visa cost 300 $ and it'll take a 3 weeks to make them, and 350 $ and it'll take 2 weeks to make them. My full name is Elena Gren. I hope to hear from you very very soon!!! With kisses, Yours Lena. PS: I'm sending you a photo on which there're I and my friend. --- Is provided by translation agency Slavonic Beauty mailto:office@agentstvd.hut.ru www.agentstvd.hut.ru

Hello my dear Jeff!!!
Thank you very much for the letter and for the photoes you have sent me!!! Oh, I've heard about Snt. Patrick's Day I've heard about this, and thank you for telling me about it!!! It's so interesting to lear about other people's holidays!!! You see, to make a passport and visa I need to pay for them. You see all the documents, photoes, and everything what is needed to make them, the agency which deals with this documents makes by themselves. The photo they do with the help of the digital camera, and then I'll send you the photo!!! You see, I don't want to turn to the travel agency here in Lugansk, because they'll take more money, and anaway I'll have to go to Kiev to get my visa, and there'll take less money because then there won't be a go-between then!!! Waiting to hear from you Yours Lena. --- Is provided by translation agency Slavonic Beauty mailto:office@agentstvd.hut.ru www.agentstvd.hut.ru

Helo my dear Jeff!!!
Thank you for your letter!!! I'm sending you the photo of me, hope that you'll enjoy it!!! :))) Please try to understand, I don't have the money for making the visa and going to Kiev, till you won't send me some money I can't start the process of registration of the passport and visa. You see, as far as I know, if I won't have a passport and visa nobody will talk with me about tickets and going somewhere!!! Waiting to hear from you, Yours Lena. --- Is provided by translation agency Slavonic Beauty mailto:office@agentstvd.hut.ru www.agentstvd.hut.ru

Hello my dear Jeff!!!
It was very great to get a letter from you!!! I'm very sorry that I sent you the photo you have seen, but you see at the agency they can't find my letters...so I'm very sorry for thet photo!!! :))) On to this moment I have found out this: There's a phone number of the office, which makes the documents, +380505666842 They don't have the e-mail address, because they don't work in the Internet, they word with real people and when they come to them, I mean to the office by themselves. And this is +380444615050 the phone of the travel agency in Kiev, the department which deals with booking tickets. Waiting to hear from you as soon as possible!!! With kisses Yours Lena. --- Is provided by translation agency Slavonic Beauty mailto:agentstvd@ukr.net www.agentstvd.hut.ru

Dear Jeff!!!
I know already that you wanted to send me flowers...thank you...but it caused so many problems to me...you see I gave you that address where it was written in my passport I lived, but I actually live much closer to the Univercity, but illigally. About that knew only I and the woman who is in charge for that dormitory...and now everybody knows about it...actually I had no right to do that, but it was easier for me.... I don't know they even threaten to expel me for not obeying the rules...I can give you my address, but nobody is permitted to go there, I mean strange people, and they'll be told that I don't live there...so what's the difference...now I don't know what I'm going to do...there're a lot of problems!!! >From Lena. Is provided by the translation agency Slavonic Beauty mailto:agentstvd@ukr.net www.agentstvd.narod.ru

Dear Sir, we have to inform you that the account of Elena is over, and she will not be allowed to write any more letters until she puts some money onto it. If you wish to help her with paying for the correspondence, then you can use the services of our agency. We will be very happy if you contact us with any question you may have, Best regards, Translation agency Slavonic Beauty mailto:agentstvd@ukr.net www.agentstvd.narod.ru

Final letter from 'the agency'