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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:30:25 -0700

Vodka Honey, Straight Up

by Leora Klein.

Dan sounded great on paper: Upper East Side, Fieldston, Brown undergrad, NYU Law, formerly a corporate lawyer, currently a CEO of a nonprofit that seeks to foster peace between Palestinian and Israeli children...My mother met his mother at a charity dinner. Seated next to each other, nibbling on raisin nut rolls, patiently waiting for their salad plates to be whisked away, they noticed that neither woman ate the shaved fennel. By the time the blackened sea bass was served they were dear friends. She didn't wait for dessert to show my mother a photograph of her son, and my mother called me from the car on her way home to tell me the great news.

"She had a photograph of her son in her evening bag?"

"Actually, she had it on her cell phone, and he looked very handsome with a nice head of hair."

"Did you inquire about his height?" I am 5'9″.

"I did and she said he was taller than her husband, and her husband was tall."

He sounded too perfect. My mother always taught me perfect doesn't exist.

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Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:56:56 -0700

Breathless...

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Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:18:50 -0700

Dog vs. Cat's Diary

This is a bit old but still funny to come across it from time to time :)

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Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:15:17 -0700

Wedding Photos We'll All Remember

Stacey Kane, Maine

Ira Lippke, California

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Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:53:01 -0700

Dating in the Islamic World : "Getting a Muslim Women Online is Onerous"

by Wais Hassan.

There have been numerous articles written recently about online dating and courtship but I have not seen many from the Muslim perspective. Actually, there are a number of Muslim dating sites that have popped up during the past few years and some of them are pretty well designed and have thousands of registered users. I, an Afghan American 1st generation graduate student, have joined a couple of these sites during the past few years.

It is so difficult to meet and become friends with Muslim women in my everyday life because there are so many expectations the culture places on both men and women. Women do not want to be perceived as being loose or immoral and many who date will never admit to actually be dating anyone. All Muslim parents I know frown on casual dating and most of my relatives agreed to arranged marriages when they decided they were ready to settle down.

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Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:49:14 -0700

Ruby

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Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:53:41 -0800

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Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:57:33 -0800

Still Looking At This Late Date: My Online Dating Experiences

by Ed Attanasio.

I was very skeptical about entering the world of online dating when I initially signed up with match.com.

As a 48-year-old single male with more issues than Reader's Digest, my expectations were understandably low to start with. I've never been married, I don't have any kids and my best friend is my shrink. I decided early on that I would probably be satisfied having a relationship with someone who simply had fewer problems than I did.

I had heard both horror stories as well as wondrous tales about the online dating experience, some undoubtedly as much fiction as truth, and all of them left me extremely tentative about entering the fray. One woman I know went on 26 online dates before meeting a suitable mate, whom she eventually married. I admired her thoroughness and determination. When I went to purchase a new car, I only looked at about five vehicles before making a decision. This gal kicked more emotional tires than I can count on all my appendages combined, which means she's either a.) a complete control freak, b.) very high maintenance. c.) desperate as hell.

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Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:20:24 -0800

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Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:50:43 -0800

I wanna go back to my apartment and watch 'Kung Fu'. Do you ever watch 'Kung Fu'?