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The transvestite, the fat cyclist and the woman from Chest Monthly: writers' tales of weird dates

Stories of the path of romance from A.L. Kennedy, Jack Whitehall, Celia Walden, Toby Young and many others

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

Toby Young

Status anxiety columnist

About 15 years ago, when I was single and living in New York, I acquired what I can only describe as a stalker. A woman took exception to a newspaper article I’d written and started bombarding me with emails. For about a year, she sent me three or four emails a day, demanding a reply.

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