Please Read Me...

A note from a stalker, or something more?

I work at Barnes and Noble, as does my fiancee. Being the rather cute girl that she is, she's had a few guys hitting on her (I was the successful one). Just recently, a creepy guy who looks like Jeffrey Dahmer saw fit to give her flowers and a poem.

My fiancee wasn't working tonight, but in the section of the store she usually cleans, I found...something weird.

An envelope sticking up out of a harbound copy of The Brothers Karamazov. Written on the front in script was "Please Read Me." The letter was typed, save for the date written in black felt marker "9/17/06" and is as follows, as best as I can replicate:

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"Hello,

I need five minutes of your time to come to an understanding of the events that have unfolded today for both of us today. You have worked almost the entire day, burdened by the heavy circumstances of your job, tasks, routines. I have been to the market, the bank, and ultimately compelled into a gas station.

We do not know each other but I think you are lovely. This is neither a terrible mistake nor a devious ruse. When you smile, it makes me feel understood at just the right pitch. It's a rare smile "with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life...it [faces]--or [seems] to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then [concentrates] on you with an irresistable prejuidice in their favor. It [understands] you just so far as you [want] to be understood, believes in you as you would like to believe in yourself and [assures] you that, at your best, you hope to convey" (The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald).

I think it's nice when through some Byzantine series of events our days possess the capacity to surprise us. Due to my lack of courage and charm, I am afraid to approach you in person. I hope we meet each other some day and love one another with as much tenderness as a brand new marshmallow. This is the end of the letter.

Avec mes sentiments distingues,

Dear Stranger,"

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Over the "Dear Stranger" the letters "octor" are written in black felt pen and make it read "Doctoranger".

I've got no explanation for this...I'm not sure it was for my fiancee. If not, who was it intended for? I hope I haven't...opened myself to something odd.