Follow Up: 'I'm Finally Living The Most Beautiful, Expansive Life I Can!'

Refusing to blame yourself for your anxieties clears the way to brand new passions.

Visite jaune (Visite éclair) (1960) by Dorothea Tanning

Dear Polly,

I wrote to you last April about how I'm sick of being seen as the "smart" friend but never the "sexy" one that guys like to date. I've re-read your response to me literally 40-50 times. I was on a 19-hour flight to New York when I saw your letter, by which time I had also learned that the…