YOU SAY

I’d like to respond to the letter from the 20-year-old guy who is desperate to ask out a girl who works in the same shopping mall (Dear Coleen, June 5).

I’m a gay man and, like your reader, I’m shy about asking people out and I’m 31. I think lots of men are like this.

My advice is to get a friend to test the water and see if this girl is single and interested. Marcus, Norfolk