This arrived today:

Hello Sir, i got your email address from your website. I am translating an English short story into Chinese, and have to ask a English native two questions in understanding the story. Can you do me a favor?

It is about a woman relied on her sense of humor to get her through mastectomy. The context is that the heroine has large breasts and later had one removed. I have two questions: 1. ?Two years after the first mastectomy, I took the preventative measure of having my other breast, followed by breast reconstruction surgery.? —- Does this mean that she has her other breast removed? I think yes.

2. The context is after having only one breast, she bought a prosthesis and she describes how funny her mastectomy bra looks. ? To achieve the most realistic effect, the prosthesis is tucked into a special mastectomy bra. Huge, with wide, ugly straps, meters of hooks and eyes and pockets to stop one?s prosthesis causing a faux pas at parties by falling on the floor, they are hardly built to flatter the ego-or the body. ? Although the bra and its cargo looked ugly without my clothes, once I put on my jumper I looked fantastic. And it certainly beat the pants off the aprons with big breasts that Rob and I had laughed about buying instead. ? —— I can not understand the last sentence? I don?t know what kind of thing she is talking about.

Thank you very much for your help and I look forward to your reply.

Adele

What’s the scam? Or am I just too jaded by the 550 spams I’m now getting every day?

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