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Salutations, people. (insert name) here. I'm a young woman living in the (insert city)...

City is never capitalized alone. Sad you don't even bother to check capitalization rules. And how many times has the above introduction been used? Too many cut and pastes to keep track of!

Rated 1 for the spam and no-effort story it is.

and effort. I could care less if the city was capitalized. The story was good

If the "critic" calling itself comentarista82 knew anything at all about reality, and even the tiniest fraction about South Africa, it would know that the city of Johannesburg has a HUGE and ongoing publicity campaign headlined "City of Johannesburg" - and that is the subtle but unmistakable clue proving that the author is genuine and actually lives in (or really knows) South Africa.

So get off your putative high-horse, you sanctimonious prick, and shove your grade-school rules as far up your own butt as is possible for a walking, talking buttplug such as yourself!

It's still frowned upon in the US also (white women with black men). And rightfully so.

...has nothing to do with it being about an interracial relationship, wherever it is. That's not even what the writer addresses. If two people can get along well regardless of skin color, great. When we die, we all go to bones and ashes, where skin color becomes meaningless.

As for whichever "anonymous" spoke, rules are rules, which the writer always ignores--and if you read other pieces, all rules are ignored. You obviously know nothing of logical fallacies or you wouldn't have employed an ad hominem one. Go research it and find out what it is, since you clearly have no clue. Whether you like it or not, criticism reflects the writer's issues and that's what I'll continue to do--fairly evaluate works based on writing according to conventions. By the way: thanks for the marvelous laugh: witnessing such written wanton ignorance always makes me howl with laughter--aside from imagining you kissing your mother with that oh-so-sparkling set of jowls of yours. For all we know, you're a proxy for Spam-uelX or even another fake account he's using....so thanks again for the mirth and laughter. :D

Was excited to read story about home but you kind of botched it up and killed it for me..so here's some information just in case you want to give it another go...matriculants don't have graduation ceremonies, so there is absolutely no gown and cap when we high school; we don't even find out we passed grade 12 until well into our Xmas holidays via newspaper (silly neh?) and also and this is the most disturbing we do not I repeat DO NOT barbecue we BRAAI.. that inconsistency is the worst disservice you did to this story.. And you may ask why it's a big deal since its essentially the same thing? Well, that's the equivalent of me saying than Johan was driving his white ford bakkie(pickup truck) in South Texas.. Anyway.. Good luck with the next one

Where in Johannesburg I wanna meet this lady,

Quite a good story indeed, forget about those rude critics who are not even writing anything interesting about their sex life but if you write another one. I will definitely read it with open mind and heart. Send me a copy on marupingsda@gmail.com then will talk more