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<title>Dump Spots</title>
<description>Places I've been dumped, stood up, or otherwise rejected.</description>
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<title>Jamie G.</title>
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        Jamie was a friend of a neighbor of mine I went out with for a couple weeks. At one point she decided to move out of her ex-boyfriend's apartment (yes, I know, this should have been a sign) and into our building to share an apartment with my friend Melissa. I was out of town the weekend that she moved most of her stuff in, and when I got back I found out that she had started going out with another guy who had helped her move in the previous Saturday -- making this the second time in a matter of months that I got dumped in favor of a neighbor who had helped out with moving-related tasks. Consider my lesson learned.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/96711">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-01-29 12:44:30.892664+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Renee</title>
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        Renee was a girl who had dated my good friend Jason in high school. After years of wanting to ask her out, I finally did, to a play at the Human Experience Theatre in Columbus. I went to her house to pick her up at the time we'd decided on, and the house was dark and empty; I called her and there was no answer.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59287">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 11:46:18.75285+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Beth</title>
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        Beth was a friend of mine from a long time back whom I asked out about a week before the wedding of a mutual friend of ours (which we were both going to attend). Not only did she go out and do something else the night we'd talked about going out, she even blew off the wedding.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59314">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 12:05:37.820157+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Jane</title>
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        Jane was the first girl I asked out after moving back to Atlanta. On our second date we were supposed to meet up at the Bridgetown Grill and then go to a play at the Alliance Theatre, and she stood me up.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59325">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 12:11:27.007479+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Lorri</title>
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        Lorri wrote a fashion column for the magazine I worked at in Lynchburg. I asked her out a few months after her previous boyfriend broke up with her, and she told me thanks but she and her ex were talking about getting back together.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59337">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 12:19:26.697768+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Shannon</title>
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        Shannon worked with my best friend Brian and I went out with her for a few weeks before she decided I wasn't the person she thought I was and started going out with one of Brian's other friends.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59339">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-30 04:59:05.468588+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Anne</title>
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        I had a big crush on Anne my sophomore year of high school, and finally threw caution to the wind and took the really cheesy step of anonymously sending her a big bouquet of flowers on her birthday. After she found out whom they'd came from, she said she just wanted to be friends.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/61883">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-13 14:01:16.675136+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Katia</title>
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        Katia is the catastrophically hot Ukrainian waitress who works at the restaurant around the corner from my apartment. I would walk my dog by there every once in a while, and she thought my dog was adorable, so eventually I asked her out. We went out twice, and both times it was like trying to schedule an interview with the president. After an incredibly laborious and drawn-out process in which I gave up two separate times, I finally asked her if she was really interested in me, and she said she just wanted to be friends.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/61884">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-13 14:05:31.442196+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Bianca</title>
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        Bianca was one of the hottest girls at my high school and I was shocked to run into her one day years later while I was living up in Lynchburg. We went out once and had a great time, and then she called a few days later to ask if I wanted to do something that weekend -- but unfortunately I'd already made plans to go down to Athens for the Georgia-LSU game. I called her as soon as I got back, and left a message, and never heard from her again. Not only did I lose the chance to ever go out with her again, but the game sucked, with Georgia having to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat (to a team that would finish the season 3-8) by batting down a 2-point conversion attempt at the last second.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/61892">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-13 14:22:27.781224+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Gia</title>
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        Gia was the sorority sister of a friend of mine from Columbus. We all went out one night after the Georgia-Auburn game and I thought she was cute, and she apparently thought I was cute, so I asked her out and we went out on one date. After that I never saw her again, and had no idea what'd happened to her or why she'd stopped calling me until my friend informed me that she was dating some TKE she'd met at a party.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/61894">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-13 14:25:47.465437+00:00</dc:date>
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        This is about the spot where my first high-school girlfriend and I were driving around when she told me she was breaking up with me for some longtime friend of hers who was in the school's marching band.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59277">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 11:41:52.499816+00:00</dc:date>
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        I made the mistake of getting back together with Sally a few months later, which, as you might guess, ended badly. This is about the spot where we were driving when we decided to end things yet again.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59279">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 11:43:56.173706+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>April</title>
<description>
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        April was an exotic dancer who lived in my building and whom I would occasionally see while we were out walking our dogs. She moved out after a few months and I helped her move one weekend, but she had to repaint her old apartment that week and I couldn't help because I was at work. The next time I called her to see if she wanted to go do something, she told me she was now with Jeff, the guy who lived across the hall from me and who had helped her paint that week while I was at my job.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59331">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 12:14:35.166271+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Jennifer</title>
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        The first girl for whom I ever mustered the courage to tell her I liked her. Well, actually I got a friend of hers to tell her (this was in middle school), and Jennifer's response was to wrinkle up her nose in disgust. And thus a long history of failure began.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59336">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 12:17:18.645066+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Karina</title>
<description>
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        I met Karina at a friend's Halloween party shortly after she moved down to Birmingham from New York. We went out a few times and then I didn't hear from her for a while and we could never seem to find a time to go out and do something, and then a couple weeks later she told me she just wanted to be friends.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59346">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 12:23:28.748853+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Kacie</title>
<description>
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        Kacie was a friend of my sister's whom I went out with while my sister was doing a semester in England. We went out for a while but she stopped calling me, I think because I didn't get the picture that she'd just broken up with her longtime boyfriend and I was just a rebound thing. My sister was REALLY pissed at me when she got back to the U.S. and found all this out.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59353">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 12:26:56.539825+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Stacey</title>
<description>
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        Stacey was a girl I worked with in Atlanta. We went out for a month or two and then she just stopped returning my calls for no apparent reason.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59370">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 12:30:16.605145+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Katie H.</title>
<description>
        <![CDATA[
        Katie was the daughter of one of my favorite teachers from high school. Which made things kind of weird, I guess, but everyone I knew told me that they thought she had a big crush on me, so I went for it. I kissed her one night while we were alone at her house and she looked about as horrified as I've ever seen a human being look. I got the hell out of there and haven't seen her since.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/61887">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-01-29 12:56:38.231882+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Kristen</title>
<description>
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        Kristen was a girl I'd had a crush on for a long time in college and we'd stayed friends since. We were both living in Atlanta and had spent Memorial Day at Callaway Gardens, and we'd come back to Atlanta and were eating ice cream at Ben & Jerry's when I told her I liked her and wanted to date her. She, of course, said she just wanted to be friends. Fortunately, we ARE still the best of friends, which makes that the only time someone's ever said that to me and it turned out to be true.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/61889">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-13 14:15:13.325844+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Staci</title>
<description>
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        Staci was a girl who lived down the hall from me my freshman year of college, and I'd always been attracted to her but had been too afraid to actually ask her out. We ran into each other out of the blue one day years later in Atlanta, and we went out one night on a double-date with a couple of her friends. A few days later I called her to see if she wanted to go out on Valentine's Day and left a message, and never heard from her again.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/61895">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-13 14:28:43.907132+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Tracy</title>
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        Tracy was a waitress I met one night while I was eating at J. Alexander's with a bunch of friends. I asked for her number and we went out a couple times, and she appeared to have a good time, but when I called her for a third date she never called me back.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/61898">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-13 14:32:18.765817+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Deidre</title>
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        Deidre worked at the boutique around the corner from my apartment and was another girl I met by virtue of having a really cute dog. After having run into her three or four times I finally ginned up the courage to ask her for her number, and called her a few days later to see if she wanted to go out for a drink or something that week. She said she wasn't sure what day she'd be available because she had to go to Atlanta sometime that week, but she said she'd call me back once she knew what was up. She never did.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/61900">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-13 14:35:25.722463+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Robin</title>
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        Robin was the stunningly, mind-blowingly, world-endingly hot waitress at the Hooters we always used to go to when a bunch of my friends and I were working on a campaign during the 2004 election. I got her number with the help of a friend of mine who used to work there, and I called her a couple times but never heard back from her.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/61903">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-13 14:38:26.365558+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Maria</title>
<description>
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        Maria was another Hooters waitress with whom I had an off-again, on-again, purely sexual relationship over the course of about a year. I'm assuming she finally tired of these shenanigans because the last time I text-messaged her I never heard anything back from her.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/61909">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-13 14:45:04.827863+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Brooke</title>
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        Brooke was someone I used to see while we were out walking our dogs. One day when she was walking in front of my building I finally asked her for her number, and I called a few days later and left her a voice-mail message. She never called me back. A few days after that I was out walking my dog, and she was talking to somebody on the front terrace of the building next door to mine. I walked by on the sidewalk and she didn't so much as look in my direction.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/81718">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-12 14:11:07.092662+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mandy</title>
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        Mandy was a girl I met through a mutual friend in May of 2002 shortly after I'd gotten laid off from my job. We seemed to hit it off pretty well, which sucked because I was supposed to leave that summer to go to Russia for two and a half years with the Peace Corps. That assignment eventually got cancelled, so I started looking for jobs, and one of the places I interviewed at was in Birmingham, where Mandy was interning with some law firm. I eventually got the job and moved up here, and she was one of the people I called right after I got settled in. She never called me back.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/81720">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-12 14:15:35.590838+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Amy</title>
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        Amy was a girl I met at the dog park and started talking to because we both had Boston terriers that liked to play together. We went out for a couple months, which broke a long string of bad and/or abortive relationships I'd just gone through, so I was really looking forward to where things were going. But when I got back from a week-long trip to New York and Washington, she seemed kind of distant. I saw her again at the dog park after not having gotten to see her in almost a week and asked if she wanted to do something, and she blew me off pretty quickly; when I got home from the park, I saw that my cell phone had run out of power, so I plugged it in. When it came on and I checked my voice-mail messages, I got one from her basically giving me the heave-ho. Yup, on a voice mail.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/96713">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-30 05:03:42.119135+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Abbie</title>
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        I was having brunch with a big group of people at a restaurant in my neighborhood, and Abbie was our waitress. I'd seen her there a few times before and thought she was cute, so I ginned up the courage to ask her for her number and she gave it to me. We met up for drinks one Saturday night and we had a lot in common -- it turned out that the restaurant was just a side gig and she actually worked at the same university where I worked, in a different department, and actually knew some of my co-workers. So we went out a couple times, and I thought things were going pretty well; a few days after our second date (to go see "Ocean's 13") she went to South Carolina for a week-long business trip. I told her I'd give her a call when she got back, and I did, but she never called me back.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1825629">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-07-13 14:26:47.427744+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Becka</title>
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        I met Becka through a mutual friend and we went out for a couple weeks. Everything seemed to be going really well and all my friends were suitably impressed -- "that hot girl you're going out with" is usually how they referred to her. But after a couple weeks she told me that she'd been dating someone else and they'd decided to be exclusive, so that was that.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/794768">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-11-01 18:33:35.3773+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Joelle</title>
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        Joelle was a girl who lived in my building and, according to some of my neighbors, wanted to go out with me, but I didn't follow up on this based on bad experiences with other neighbors including April and Jamie G. (qq.v.). Eventually Joelle moved out of the building, and after I ran into her at a bar one Saturday night and we talked for a while, I decided (at the encouragement of a friend) to go ahead and ask her out. But when I did, she suddenly wasn't attracted to me anymore.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/939752">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-01-29 12:43:47.917946+00:00</dc:date>
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        Jamie was a girl I met through a couple friends of mine at Southern Progress Corp. We went out sporadically for a while and I could never quite figure out whether she was into me or not -- for instance, we went out on New Year's 2006 and had a good time, and I even kissed her afterward, but after that I could never get a follow-up date scheduled and I don't think I saw her for like two or three months. Finally, much later on in the year I told her straight out that I wanted to date her, and she said she just wanted to be friends. I still haven't quite figured out whether I just waited much too long to ask her, or whether she was never all that attracted to me in the first place.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/939756">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-01-29 12:48:47.62266+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Lindsay G.</title>
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        I met Lindsay through a friend of mine who lived in my building and we went out a couple of times. I couldn't really tell whether she was all that attracted to me. Then one night after I'd been out drinking with some friends, I got a text message from her that said "Please don't be mad at me," and when I wrote her back to ask what I would be mad about, she never sent anything back. I haven't gone out with her since.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/939760">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-01-29 12:51:45.427476+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Lindsay D.</title>
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        Lindsay joined a Democratic political campaign I was working for during the 2004 elections. A friend of mine who had gone to school with her told me that she was dating somebody, but it was a long-distance kind of thing and not necessarily serious. One evening after we'd made appearances at a couple fundraisers for some local candidates, we went back to my apartment and I kissed her, but she pretty much just sat there and didn't respond at all, so I let it drop. We never spoke of it again.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/939767">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-01-29 12:54:55.210619+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Isabel</title>
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        Isabel was a really cute barista at the Starbucks a block from my apartment. A couple months back I was lending a hand with a project being undertaken by the nursing school at the university where I work, and she showed up to have her picture taken for it; it turned out she was a nursing student and that we also had a good friend in common. A couple weeks later I finally asked her out one morning at Starbucks, and later that week we went to see a screening of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" here in town. I thought she had a good time, and as we were leaving I told her I'd give her a call later on in the week to see if she wanted to do anything, and she sounded fine with that, but when I left a message on her voice mail she never called me back.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/2506933">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-12-13 07:51:11.622899+00:00</dc:date>
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