Dear John–another quiz
Have you ever had to write a ‘Dear John’ letter? It’s a cop-out of sorts because a face-to-face break up is probably better, BUT many people take the easy route. I ran across a very interesting article in the ‘mental floss’ section of the January 24, 2024 edition of Shelf Awareness, written by Ellen Gutoskey. I took a few of the excepts from the Dear John letters the author featured and turned them into a quiz. This quiz is a matching quiz, so you will read the quotes and then match with the famous relationships.
- “I know that I am still very fond of you, but , it is more as a mother than as a sweetheart…….I hope and pray that after you have thought things out , you’ll be able to forgive me and start a wonderful career….”
- ” Please accept this letter with an open heart as it is written with forthright sincerity. I’m sorry I could not have tried harder to be less self indulgent and theirwith , a little more compatable.”
- “Only now a sense of my worth, and a sense also that I can bear no more, makes me write this to you. Write me no more such letters as you sent to me in England.”
- “I’m writing to let you know that I’m releasing you. I’m amputating you….If there is anything I’d enjoy beore I die, it’d be not having to see your f***ing horrible bastard face wandering around my garden.”
- ” I shall miss you with passion and wild regret. You may rest assured that I will not have an affair with any other female.”
- “Going out with you was like going out with a priest.”
a. Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera
b. Edith Wharton to W. Morton Fullerton
c. Marlon Brando to Solange Podell
d. Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor
e. Anais Nin to C.L. Baldwin
f. Agnes won Kurowsky to Ernest Hemingway
