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"First, a quick update on the faceless woman on Nerve who sent me a nice message: I have now seen photos and it turns out she&amp;#x27;s pretty cute. She also has an interesting job and shares my love of hummus, so I might as well meet her for a drink, right? Anyway: I was at a shindig over the weekend and ran into an acquaintance I hadn&amp;amp;#8217;t seen in awhile. There was clearly something different about her&amp;amp;#8212;she was more upbeat, more outgoing, happier. It turns out she recently met a great new guy who was everything she was looking for. &amp;amp;#8220;Ryan,&amp;amp;#8221; she said, &amp;amp;#8220;I think I found my soul mate!&amp;amp;#8221; I smiled politely and kept my opinion to myself:With the lovely senoritas Cha and Meg. Gotta love Cinco de Mayo.There are no such things as soul mates. The concept that there is a single person in the world who completes you simply isn&amp;amp;#8217;t logical (although given my lack of romantic luck, it isn&amp;amp;#8217;t so hard to believe that my one and only is living somewhere in Papua New Guinea). Most people eventually find someone special wherever they end up. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t consider this an anti-romantic notion. Quite the contrary&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;amp;#8217;m still a hopeless believer in true love. But in a world of almost seven billion people (click here to be freaked out), basic statistics mean there are thousands&amp;amp;#8212;tens of thousands&amp;amp;#8212;probably hundreds of thousands of people across the globe you could happily spend the rest of your life with given the right circumstances. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know about you, but I find that thought profoundly reassuring. Do you believe in soul mates? What do you think of the idea that there are people in China, Czechoslovakia, and Chile who are equally perfect for you? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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