LISA WAS GIVING IT A SHOT

On September 24 (2006) I got an email from a woman land owner in Pavones. In her first sentence she is referring to an expression I use in the book: "I gave  it a shot."

"I can quote Lisa on that saying as well, when I asked her what brought a single girl like her to the end of the road?  (This was November 2005.)  I had no idea of the circumstances of your meeting each other or anything else about your relationship.  I assumed she went down there surfing and you met her then, she did not elaborate on anything but her answer to my question was: "I had nothing going on in my life, I got an offer I could not refuse and I thought I would give it a shot."  I thought to myself then I hope she wasn't talking about her relationship with you, because poor Allan never had a chance with a response like that."

Presumably, the "offer" she couldn't refuse was the land deal I shared with her that made her close to $200,000 in less than two years. 

And what happened to her having "burned bridges" and having left a career that would have made her $250,000 a year?

Different story here.

And regarding "poor Allan" never having a chance in a relationship with Lisa:

No shit.

Another one:

As of late October, 2006: Montauk people have been reading the book. Here’s an email from a long-time male Montauker:

 Lisa looks like a younger version of a friend of> mine named jill. On one of> my rare nights in The Harvest [a local restaurant], I sat next to lisa at> the bar, I had never seen> her before. i think she was still married. I said you> must be jills cousin (who> has a house in montauk but I had never met.) Must> have sounded like a come on> and She gave me a quick cold shoulder. things warmed> up a bit when She realized> everyone knew me and visa versa. (arland was> bartending).> at some point the conversation was marriage and (in)> Fidelity. The line I cant> forget from her is "Fidelity is over rated and i> need a ride home" I did not> give her a ride home.> (Thats why Im still married after 20 years . now i> wish some one would hit on

> me in a bar).

Arland was bartending at The Harvest back in 96 – 97. Lisa was in fact still married then. (If you read Lisa's reply to my letter to her brother, you'll find a passage wherein she asserts how much she respects "marriage vows.")

I’ve been getting a lot of stories like this one.