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Fireworks (7.30)
When I peered in, I caught just a glimpse of him pulling his pants on over his boxers, causing me to jump back onto the porch. |
7/30/2003 |
Nostra Damn Us (6.24)
I met a girl recently through the Personals. After dating for six weeks, she tells me a psychic told her that we had to break up. |
6/24/2003 |
Wet Weekend (6.04)
I met a girl in the Personals and scheduled a date. She insisted I come over to her house for dinner so we could talk. |
6/4/2003 |
Face to Face (5.27)
This is a (true) story of love and romance that would even restore Eminem's faith in the possibility of a happy relationship. Most of all, it's a story of persistence, and yes the unknown, but also of promise, and hope. THE CHARACTERS: DUDE (me) in NYC, professional, 38, divorced, two kids; CHICK in |
5/27/2003 |
Spreading the Love (4.29)
For me, the story is really about finding "the ones" and finding parts of myself in the process. |
4/29/2003 |
Southern Discomfort (4.18)
Eventually, too drunk to drive, we listened to Siouxsie and the Banshees in his parked car and I tackled him. |
4/18/2003 |
Snow Day (4.9)
He says that I was the first woman he responded to, and I'll choose to believe him because it just makes a better story. |
4/9/2003 |
Hedging My Bets (3.21)
Mr. Distant finally calls that next night. And he tells me he hooked up a couple weeks ago with his on-and-off-again girlfriend of six years. He was gonna give this a shot, but he still wanted to be friends. Oh yeah, right, that sounded great. |
3/21/2003 |
Ego Boost or Bust (3.5)
Can you guess the ending? Yup, it's stickier and gooier than the floor of a peep show booth. |
3/5/2003 |
Getting Down (Under) (2.21)
I was concerned that perhaps I’d felt more of a "connection" than there actually was. I was wrong in the very best way: each day continues to be more amazing than the one before. |
2/21/2003 |
Punch Drunk Love (2.7)
Personals: That's so lame. That's what I always thought, but being the desperate sucker that I am, I went for it anyway. |
2/7/2003 |
Giving Him the Cheek (1.28)
At this point, truth be told, I was basically letting my mom pick out my Internet dates. |
1/28/2003 |
DOH!
I realized that the only "compliment" I gave her the whole night was, "At least you aren't frightening." Doh! |
1/3/2003 |
Let it Flow (12.25)
Do you folks have some program for donating unused credits to needy Afghan refugees or something? |
12/25/2002 |
Aw Shucks!
The two of us are writing to thank you for making it possible for us to meet. |
12/18/2002 |
Turning Japanese (12.4)
I kissed him good night, and we made plans to see each other the next day. In fact, I think we saw each other for the next five days in a row. |
12/4/2002 |
You Never Know Until You Try (11.21)
What makes this a bit odd, all things considered, is that we're both over fifty...when so many of your partisans are not. |
11/21/2002 |
The Nasty (11.13)
I lack confidence in my appearance so it's been a pleasant surprise that a good percentage of the men I meet — though of course not all of them — want to do the nasty with me. |
11/13/2002 |
A Long Time Coming (11.6)
So I placed an ad. Got some good responses, some mediocre responses, some no-way-in-hell responses. I went on a few dates, even hit it off enough with one guy to become well acquainted with his (very comfortable) bed. |
11/6/2002 |
Disco Balls (10.30)
So I filled out the questionnaire's other sections and clicked that save button and waited. It took some time before I got a response, and then suddenly that magical moment happened. You've got male! |
10/30/2002 |
Better Living through Chemistry (10.25)
She likes bourbon. She can hold her liquor, and she has the cutest smile imaginable — it almost makes me melt. Who knows what will happen. |
10/25/2002 |
Standards in Seduction (10.18)
Once I found myself at dinner in lovely evening wear that I spent time picking out, sitting across from a guy whom until then had been perfect. Our first actual meeting and he is in sneakers, shorts and a college sweatshirt, with an indefinable stain on the front. |
10/18/2002 |
Going the Distance (10.4)
The London geek looked at his ad, liked what she saw, and the two struck up an appropriately acronym-filled online friendship. But neither thought much would come of it, because of the distance. |
10/4/2002 |
Papa Don't Preach (9.18)
This was the one I had been looking for, buried under mounds of other ads, bravado and bullshit. This one was good. I wrote to him and he wrote me back, "curiosity piqued" and we kept writing. |
9/18/2002 |
One of the Good Guys (9.11)
I live in a rural area with a limited and scary gene pool, I had long ago written off any entertainment by the local talent. So this year my hankering to meet someone moved me to place an ad in the Personals |
9/11/2002 |
Ho (8.21)
I thought that at twenty-six, it was about time i went through a "ho" period. So i turned to the Internet. |
8/21/2002 |
Twinned Cities (7.24)
Boy responds by saying: "Yeah too bad, would like to have you for dinner some night too." |
7/24/2002 |
Anyone Home? (7.17)
While I wouldn't say that Mariah Carey was going to pen ballads about our magical evening, we both had a fine time, agreed we should meet again, and further agreed I should walk her home. |
7/17/2002 |
Chemistry (7.3)
I knew spending weeks to fine tune my ad would pay off someday. I received many responses filled with compliments on my writing, though many of the men were geographically unfavorable. |
7/3/2002 |
Stars and Standards (6.26)
Many people freely list the contents of their five-disc changers in the hopes of a more likely match. |
6/26/2002 |
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