Because real messages are sometimes hidden.

I always dream that you will be mine, really MINE! –GIRL But, you didn't notice me, even just a single glance. Then, one single night, everything changes and I was given a chance. Will you look at my direction now? Or will you continue to wait and stare at the direction she just left?

This novella was a Hugo and Nebula nominee twenty years ago. I lost both to Charles Sheffield -- whom I married five years later. Life sometimes really is just as strange as fiction.