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" I&amp;#039;m not sure if it&amp;#039;s the changing seasons or supreme exhaustion, but lately, when it comes to guys, I&amp;#039;ve just been feeling...blah. Like I can&amp;#039;t get up the enthusiasm to really get into the dating scene. As you know, I haven&amp;#039;t seen anyone since Nondisclosure Guy and that ended in mid-September. Last night, I explored my new neighborhood with a friend, and we ended up at a nearly-empty bar where we drank sangria and began playing Connect 4 (the bar was one of those kitschy ones with board games set up on the bar) All of a sudden, a guy burst in. &amp;quot;Want to play two on two?&amp;quot; He asked. We shrugged at each other. &amp;quot;Great, I&amp;#039;ll get my friend.&amp;quot; Then he burst out and showed up five minutes later with a British guy. We played Connect 4 \u2014 us against them. We won on the diagonal. The one guy went off into a rant about how that was just like women to be sneaky and not clear and pull a move no one was expecting. It was banter, but it was weird\u2014normally I&amp;#039;d be all down for playfully following that line of thought but last night I just wasn&amp;#039;t. I know I&amp;#039;m in a slump right now, but it just feels like I&amp;#039;ve had the same flirtatious conversation a hundred \u2014 no, a thousand \u2014 times in my life. And I think I&amp;#039;m trying to look for something more &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; (augh, cliche alert!) but yet unsure of how to do that. Again, I know it&amp;#039;s a phase and it&amp;#039;ll get better with sleep, a constructive attitude, and a little bit of luck. Do you have any suggestions? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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