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Good Touch, Bad Touch: Breaking the Touch Barrier

Have you ever found yourself not knowing someone’s name? Someone whose name you should know, so you feel silly asking? So you don’t ask. You slide by on talking to them when they look at you, coming up with generic nicknames, and eavesdropping in the hope of catching their name. The longer you wait to [...]

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Holding Her Attention: Now What?

Over the course of my St. Patrick’s Day, I made a lot of new friends. I cheered on a bagpiper wearing a kilt, carded a German man because his name sounded like something you make up, and attempted to push over a firefighter because his friend told me it couldn’t be done. (He was correct, [...]

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May I Cut In?: Avoiding the Dreaded Third Wheel

Sitting at my favorite centrally-located, middle of the bar table with my friends, two of us were facing the bar itself. Despite the conversations going on around us, we were totally engrossed in what was going on over there. A woman and two men were sitting on stools, and it was a train wreck. The [...]

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Reading Female Body Language (a How-To)

These Feet Were Made For Talking Guys can be thick-headed. Women already know this, but let’s be abundantly clear: men are very visual by nature, but they have a difficult time processing certain cues from the opposite sex. Whether it registers cognitively, the very first thing that people recognize about each other is body language. [...]

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