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Relationship Cliché

Your Beloved Need Not Be Your Bestie Too Lately, I have come to notice a certain shared impulse by coupled-up friends, acquaintances and post-Bachelor influencers in the way they talk about their beloved. It shows up all year, but really crops up around Valentine’s Day. You have
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App-y New Year

Why Dating App Flings Tend to Fade Quickly “What really matters is what you like, not what you are like. Books, records, films — these things matter. Call me shallow; it’s the fucking truth,” John Cusack told the camera in High Fidelity, the 2000 film adaptation of Nick Hornby’s
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