um, thanks?

friends,
please advise on how i should respond to this email, received from a friend of mine from the gambia. you can read the context if you look from bottom to top:

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GREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU‏
From:	Lamin J C------- (c----------e@yahoo.co.uk)
Sent:	March 25, 2008 8:55:48 AM
To:	Lisa D----r (l---------r@hotmail.com)

Hello Lisa,

Great feeling after recieving this mail from you, bcos have been wondering why you never write back to me.

LISA, I have never tell you this , but i am seriously IN LOVE WITH YOU. when you where in the Gambia here , i never tell you when you where here bcos you might think a white lady ( Toubab ) in the Gambia that why. Lisa since i first set my eyes on you it touches my heart so deeply that i realize how one could fall in love instaneously.

I can never stop thinking about you, that why i always write you and i feel is very necessary to let you know that i love you so much .

i wish you understand what i am saying and i wish you love as well.

thanks

----- Original Message ----
From: Lisa D----r
To: Lamin J C----y
Sent: Monday, 17 March, 2008 5:48:33 PM
Subject: RE: greeting

Hi Lamin,

I hope you're well. I'm doing well, but very busy with work and school - sorry I didn't reply to your last email yet. I have one month left of school, and then I have to look for a job for the summer. How is the Gambia? It must be getting warm by now. Here we have 3 feet of snow on the ground, so it has been hard to walk or drive anywhere. It is getting sunny though, and I hope it will all melt soon. I wish I was back there though... I would love to go to the beach right now!

Have a good one,

Lisa

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:34:29 +0000
From: c----------e@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: greeting
To: l---------r@hotmail.com

hello lisa,

lisa, how are you doing , hope all is well. i do write to you but no reply

thanks