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"Types: most of us have them. It&amp;amp;#8217;s normal to have a certain &amp;amp;#8220;look&amp;amp;#8221; or personality trait you&amp;amp;#8217;re most attracted to, but is it better for us to break outside the guy-mold once in a while? OK, so the whole thing about pheromones might not have as much to do with our dating selections as we previously thought. Still, if smells don&amp;amp;#8217;t have all that much to do with it (apart from Polo Black, which is basically a mating call in liquid form) it sure seems that &amp;amp;#8220;types&amp;amp;#8221; do. Over and over, many of us are drawn to very similar kinds of guys. Is it a good thing, or are our types out to get us? Generally speaking, I&amp;amp;#8217;m drawn more to guys with dark hair than light hair. Plenty of blond guys are cute (you know my feelings on Ryan Gosling), but in a proverbial sea of men, they&amp;amp;#8217;re not the ones that I swim toward first. Actually I&amp;amp;#8217;m more like a sea anemone in this scenario, wavering back and forth and nervously eating any snacks that float by. But, um, anyway... I have a friend who&amp;amp;#8217;s into guys that look like they walked off the set of Jersey Shore. I have another who&amp;amp;#8217;s mainly into sweet-talking and emotionally unavailable hippies. I personally seem to have a &amp;amp;#8220;reformed bad boy&amp;amp;#8221; (with dark hair) problem. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not that there&amp;amp;#8217;s anything inherently wrong with any of these types of guys, but guess how often they&amp;amp;#8217;ve worked out for my friends and me so far? Zero percent of the time. Of course, that&amp;amp;#8217;s not a statistical study. The girls and I are still out there, collecting data. When we&amp;amp;#8217;ve finished dating every last available guy in each of our preferred types, I&amp;amp;#8217;ll report back with the results. It could be a while. What do you think? Do you have a type, and has it worked out well for you? Do you think it&amp;amp;#8217;s important to try to date outside the box? Katie Heaney is a writer and dedicated text message analyst in Minneapolis. Follow her on Twitter @KTHeaney. More Ways to Get Glamour: NEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard! Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad--print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter. Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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