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" Of course they will, so you&amp;#039;d better get it in writing before she changes her mind. Your &amp;quot;girlfriend&amp;quot; won&amp;#039;t be the first woman to suddenly lose interest in a man after seeing him out of his county blues. I&amp;#039;m sorry to report that it&amp;#039;s happened with nearly every inmate I&amp;#039;ve dated. If your gal is the old-fashioned type who insists that her dream wedding take place on the outside, it&amp;#039;s best to wait until you two have lived in the same city for a while and you&amp;#039;ve gotten your roofing business off the ground. &amp;quot;Twice-yearly visits are probably not enough to create or maintain a meaningful interpersonal connection,&amp;quot; say Chris Bell and Kate Brauer-Bell, coauthors of The Long-Distance Relationship Survival Guide: Secrets and Strategies from Successful Couples Who Have Gone the Distance. And romance coach Leslie Karsner, who is herself an author (you haven&amp;#039;t read The Long Distance Romance Guide or Long Distance Lovemaking?), further degrades you with her suggestion to schedule visits no more than three weeks apart. &amp;quot;LDRs require ample resources and flexibility,&amp;quot; she mocks. &amp;quot;Airline tickets, phone bills, and care packages can make an LDR rather costly.&amp;quot; And while that may be true of some really fancy Light Dependent Resistors, you can usually get a basic one at Radio Shack for less than five dollars. Check the paper for weekly specials, and best of luck to you both. Got a sex question of your own? E-mail it to us at sex@esquire.com. RELATED STORIES:  SEX: All Your Sex Questions Answered Here   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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