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I didn’t want to be a stripper.
Really, I have no idea what I wanted from the exotic dance class I’d enrolled in at an adult education center. I didn’t know whether the course catalog’s promise to help “create a full repertoire of floor-routine and chair moves you can use in…
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The other night, I met a real-life
womanizer. A handsome attorney named Steven sidled up to me
at a bar during a political fundraiser. As he flirted over
conversation about the local senate race, he was charming and
complimentary of all my lady loveliness. Because he hung on
my… Read More »
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My friend Melissa recently stopped dating
a guy because he’s divorced. In her mind, divorced men are
damaged goods. She wants her guy pure – no festering
resentments, no messy attachments to another woman, no failed model
of marriage to replicate or rebel against.
For a while, I…
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Don Draper may be the sexiest, most gorgeously tortured human being ever to have landed on television. All the male characters on Mad Men tantalize viewers by unbuttoning their over-starched dress shirts to reveal the voluptuous, sometimes vile and always ego-driven hunger…
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I finally had one of those moments when you discover an ex has gotten married and your world momentarily collapses. Facebook was innocently trolling my email address book looking for new users who could become my friends. Martin…
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Recently, I met up with a couple old
friends, a married woman and a single gal enjoying the fruits of a
new romance. I told them about all my turbulent
relationships, joking about the slackers and bad boys, the
commitment-phobes and jerky alpha-males who’d come into my life
since we’d last… Read More »
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A few years ago, I saw a BBC documentary about phobias
in which an adult woman was being treated for her lifelong,
incapacitating fear of birds. Now, fear of heights, closed-in
spaces, lawn mowers, I understand. But who’s ever ended up in
a hospital or morgue after suffering an aerial… Read More »
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The world must really believe women are a bunch of
nincompoops. At least, everyone seems to enjoy implying we
are.
This week, I discovered TWITS (Teenage Women In their Thirties), a new term for women who shun marriage and kids in favor of a social life and personal freedom. Then…
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Mathias was a German I dated in ’07 while he was on a break with his girlfriend. I didn’t find out I’d been in break territory until a week ago, when I ran into Mathias and he told me he’d gotten back together with his fräulein for the fourth time in their ten year…
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The first time I went out with Joshua, I
thought he might be a bit too young and boyishly thrilled by the
possibilities of his own future to focus seriously on a
relationship with a woman. But I decided not to care.
Joshua was a marvelous painter who had great passion for all
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